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Tableau Next Considerations, Guidelines, and Limits
Considerations are factors to understand before working with Tableau Next. Guidelines define best-practice recommendations to improve your use of Tableau Next for optimal performance. Limits are boundaries beyond which features are unavailable or usage billing charges are applied.
Required Editions
| View supported editions. |
Localization Limitations
Tableau Next is localized with these exceptions.
- Tableau Next offers limited language support. For a complete list of supported languages, see the Analytics Cloud section of User Interface Language Support.
- Included apps, metric insights, and Agentforce features aren’t multilingually supported.
Tableau Next provides internationalization support with these exceptions.
- To see translated labels, set both the locale and language.
- Data sources aren't modified for localization or internationalization.
- Data sources can have a single locale specified in the metadata, including data models and process definitions. Their locale isn’t overridden by individual user locale settings.
Workspace Considerations and Limits
Consider these limits when working with workspaces in Tableau Next.
| Feature or Function | Guidelines and Limits | Hard Limit? | Additional Information and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum number of assets per workspace | 500 | Yes | |
| Share a workspace | Only workspace owners can share. | By sharing, you grant other users permission to view or edit an asset. You can't grant users the owner role. |
Personal Org Limits
Consider these limits when working with Personal Orgs in Tableau Next.
| Feature or Function | Guidelines and Limits | Hard Limit? | Additional Information and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| User sharing / collaboration | A Personal Org can be shared with up to 50 other analysts. | This applies to analysts you invite to collaborate on your work-in-progress. | |
| Concurrent reuse operations | Maximum of 50 active concurrent reuse operations. | ||
| DC1 organization types | Personal Orgs are not supported in companion Data Cloud One (DC1) organizations. | Yes | Personal Orgs are exclusively provisioned for Home organizations in Data Cloud One (DC1). |
| Sandbox organizations | Personal Orgs are not supported in Sandbox organizations. | Yes | |
| Schema mismatch / reuse | Reuse is blocked if the production asset has a newer schema version than the asset in the Personal Org. | Yes | Users must wait for Personal Org upgrade to match production version. |
| Assets per share operation | Up to 100 DLOs, CIOs, and DMOs can be included in a single workspace share operation. | Yes | This limit applies to the number of assets shared at one time. |
Data Limits
These limits apply to data in Tableau Next.
| Feature or Function | Production Org Limit | Personal Org Limit | Hard Limit? | Additional Information and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum number of CSV uploads per org | 100 | 500 | ||
| Maximum number of XLXS uploads per org | 100 | 500 | ||
| Maximum size of CSV text file | 100 MB | 100 MB | ||
| Maximum columns in CSV text file | 100 | 100 | ||
| Maximum size of XLXS file | 100 MB | 100 MB | ||
| Maximum columns in XLXS file | 100 | 100 | ||
| Maximum DLOs created via File (CSV) upload per org | 100 | 500 | No | Customers can contact their account manager about increasing this limit. |
| Maximum DLOs created via File (XLXS) upload per org | 100 | 500 | No | Customers can contact their account manager about increasing this limit. |
Semantic Model Considerations
Keep these considerations in mind when working with semantic models in Tableau Next.
| Feature or Function | Guidelines and Limits | Hard Limit? | Additional Information and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share a semantic model | Only semantic model owners can share. | Users must also have access to the data space that the model belongs to. See Associate a Permission Set with a Data Space. |
Metrics Considerations
Keep these considerations in mind when working with Tableau Next metrics.
| Feature or Function | Guidelines and Limits | Hard Limit? | Additional Information and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share a metric | You can’t share an individual metric in Tableau Next. | Users see a metric if it's part of a semantic model that they have access to. |
Visualization Considerations and Limits
Consider these limits when working with Tableau Next visualizations.
| Feature or Function | Guidelines and Limits | Hard Limit? | Additional Information and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum number of rows returned per query | 5,000 | Yes | |
| Share a visualization | Only visualization owners can share. | By sharing, you grant other users permission to view an asset. You can't grant users the owner role. | |
| Add actions | Only 5 Salesforce actions can be added per visualization field. | Yes | |
| Create a waterfall chart | Waterfall chart limitations | ||
| Forecast data | Forecasting data limitations |
Dashboard Considerations and Limits
Keep these considerations and limits in mind when working with Tableau Next dashboards.
| Feature or Function | Guidelines and Limits | Hard Limit? | Additional Information and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share a dashboard | Only dashboard owners can share. | By sharing, you grant other users permission to view an asset. You can't grant users the owner role. | |
| Add Salesforce Flow actions | Only 1 Salesforce Flow action can be added per dashboard button or container. | Yes |
Agentforce for Analytics Limitations, Considerations, and Limits
These limits and considerations apply to topics and actions in Agentforce.
Concierge: Analytics Q&A Limits and Considerations
| Feature or Function | Guidelines and Limits | Hard Limit? | Additional Information and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single Semantic Model for Metrics | Metrics must be based on a single semantic model. | ||
| Supported on Metric Details and Dashboards Views | Concierge: Analytics Q&A works in multiple surfaces in Tableau Next and Salesforce 360. For more information, see Supported Questions and Surfaces for Concierge: Analytics Q&A. | ||
| Unsupported on Data Lake Objects (DLOs), logical views, or unmapped Data Model Objects (DMOs) | Analytics Q&A is unavailable for metrics based on unstructured DLOs, logical views, or unmapped DMOs. | ||
| Occasional Topic Selection Errors | Agentforce may respond to queries outside the Analytics Q&A scope. | This behavior depends on the query context and is inherent to generative AI systems. | |
| Limitations on Scope for Questions | For a list of limitations specific to questions and responses, see Analytics Q&A: Limitations. |
Tableau Next Metadata API Limits
These limits apply to the AnalyticsWorkspace, AnalyticsDashboard, and AnalyticsVisualization entities.
| Feature or Function | Guidelines and Limits | Hard Limit? | Additional Information and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum number of instances in a single deploy request per entity type | 50 | Yes | A request can include multiple entity types. |
| Maximum number of instances in a single retrieve request per entity type | 100 | Yes | A request can include multiple entity types. |
| Maximum number of instances across all deploy operations per entity type per day | 100 | Yes | |
| Maximum number of instances across all retrieve operations per entity type per day | 200 | Yes |
Unmetered Usage Guidelines and Limits
These guidelines and limits apply to unmetered Tableau Next usage, available with the unmetered Tableau Next permission.
| Feature or Function | Guidelines and Limits | Hard Limit? | Additional Information and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum concurrent queries per org | 100 | ||
| Minutes until queries time out | 2 | ||
| Compute hours per day | 5000 | ||
| Minimum number of minutes between extracts and metric refreshes | 15 | ||
| Maximum concurrent transforms per org | 50 | Unmetered transforms are supported in the home org only. | |
| Maximum rows processed in transforms per month | 20 billion | For the Personal Org, the limit is applied at the production org level. | |
| Maximum batch transforms per org | Without Data 360 Profile: 1000 With Data 360 Profile: Varies by contract (either 25 or 100 per Profile), plus 50 transforms per creator |
No | Unmetered transforms are supported in the home org only. For more information, see Data 360 Profiles License Billing and Limits. Contact your Account Executive to adjust this limit. |

