Delete tag with special characters like '#' does not work #675

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1. bcantoni commented on Aug 29, 2020

   

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   @tv-terminator there could be an issue there (I think we have or had a similar bug with encoding special characters). Can you give a fuller code snippet example of how you're trying to delete tags? Also what type of resource are the tags associated with?
2. tv-terminator commented on Aug 29, 2020

   

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   I have tried both workbooks & datasources; ended up with same result. Heres a full log with code:

   `# w = workbook_item, t = tableau connection/hook

   w=t.workbooks_get(get_by_content_url='POC')[0]
   w
   <tableauserverclient.models.workbook_item.WorkbookItem object at 0x7f1116314e10>
   w.tags
   set()
   w.tags.add('#test')
   w.tags
   {'#test'}
   t.workbooks_update(w)
   [2020-08-28 19:43:18,196] {{resource_tagger.py:47}} INFO - Updated tags to {'#test'}
   [2020-08-28 19:43:18,283] {{workbooks_endpoint.py:89}} INFO - Updated workbook item (ID: xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx)
   <tableauserverclient.models.workbook_item.WorkbookItem object at 0x7f1118fa3f28>
   w=t.workbooks_get(get_by_content_url='POC')[0]
   w.tags
   {'#test'}
   w.tags.remove('#test')
   w.tags
   set()
   t.workbooks_update(w)
   [2020-08-28 19:44:10,195] {{resource_tagger.py:47}} INFO - Updated tags to set()
   [2020-08-28 19:44:10,259] {{workbooks_endpoint.py:89}} INFO - Updated workbook item (ID: xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx)
   <tableauserverclient.models.workbook_item.WorkbookItem object at 0x7f1116f73400>
   w=t.workbooks_get(get_by_content_url='POC')[0]
   w.tags
   {'#test'}
   `

   Works fine with a plain text tag:
   `

   w.tags.add('test')
   w.tags
   {'#test', 'test'}
   t.workbooks_update(w)
   [2020-08-28 19:47:38,117] {{resource_tagger.py:47}} INFO - Updated tags to {'#test', 'test'}
   [2020-08-28 19:47:38,194] {{workbooks_endpoint.py:89}} INFO - Updated workbook item (ID: xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx)
   <tableauserverclient.models.workbook_item.WorkbookItem object at 0x7f1116791ba8>
   w=t.workbooks_get(get_by_content_url='POC')[0]
   w.tags
   {'#test', 'test'}
   w.tags.remove('test')
   w.tags
   {'#test'}
   t.workbooks_update(w)
   [2020-08-28 19:48:19,445] {{resource_tagger.py:47}} INFO - Updated tags to {'#test'}
   [2020-08-28 19:48:19,519] {{workbooks_endpoint.py:89}} INFO - Updated workbook item (ID: xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx)
   <tableauserverclient.models.workbook_item.WorkbookItem object at 0x7f1116bf1ac8>
   w=t.workbooks_get(get_by_content_url='POC')[0]
   w.tags
   {'#test'}
   `
3. bcantoni

   changed the title [-]Delete tag does not work[/-] [+]Delete tag with special characters like '#' does not work[/+] on Sep 1, 2020
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5. bcantoni commented on Sep 1, 2020

   

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   Thanks @tv-terminator for the repro steps. I can confirm this is a bug and your pointer to resource_tagger.py is where we are not properly quoting the tag.

   Adding new #test tag works, put method:

   DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://10ax.online.tableau.com:443 "PUT /api/3.9/sites/MY-SITE-IT/workbooks/MY-WORKBOOK-ID/tags HTTP/1.1" 200 202
   

   Deleting the #test tag does not work, delete method throws a 405 error because "#test" is dropped from the URL:

   DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://10ax.online.tableau.com:443 "DELETE /api/3.9/sites/MY-SITE-IT/workbooks/MY-WORKBOOK-ID/tags/ HTTP/1.1" 405 377
   DEBUG:tableau.endpoint:b'<?xml version=\'1.0\' encoding=\'UTF-8\'?><tsResponse xmlns="http://tableau.com/api" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tableau.com/api http://tableau.com/api/ts-api-3.9.xsd"><error code="405000"><summary>Method Not Allowed</summary><detail>The HTTP method \'DELETE\' is not supported for the given resource</detail></error></tsResponse>'
   

   Trying to delete a tag foo#bar shows the similar issue, with everything from the pound sign being dropped in the URL resulting in a 404:

   DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://10ax.online.tableau.com:443 "DELETE /api/3.9/sites/MY-SITE-IT/workbooks/MY-WORKBOOK-ID/tags/foo HTTP/1.1" 404 342
   DEBUG:tableau.endpoint:b'<?xml version=\'1.0\' encoding=\'UTF-8\'?><tsResponse xmlns="http://tableau.com/api" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tableau.com/api http://tableau.com/api/ts-api-3.9.xsd"><error code="404007"><summary>Resource Not Found</summary><detail>Tag \'foo\' could not be found.</detail></error></tsResponse>'
   

   There are a few other open bugs around attributes with special characters, so hopefully we can resolve some of these together.
6. tv-terminator commented on Sep 1, 2020

   

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   Awesome! Thanks @bcantoni !
7. bcantoni commented on Sep 2, 2020

   

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   Similar bugs related to encoding include #578, #516 and #418
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9. jacalata

   added 3 commits that reference this issue on Jun 18, 2026

   fix: encode special characters in tag delete URL path

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   fix: encode special characters in tag delete URL path

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   fix: encode special characters in tag delete URL path

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10. jacalata

    closed this as completedin #1782on Jun 19, 2026
11. jacalata

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    fix: quote tag labels containing spaces or commas (tableau#1782)

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    This issue will close once commit 0098271 is merged into the 'master' branch.

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