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For software development questions related to the use of developer API for Tableau Software, a family of interactive data visualization products

Tableau Software is a family of interactive data visualization products focused on business intelligence. There is also a developer API for creating data extract files, and a developer API for JavaScript interaction, which provides more custom ways to interact with Tableau reports.

Main Features:

  • Connect to a large variety of data sources, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Teradata, BigQuery, Redshift, Google Analytics and Salesforce.
  • Has option to extract data to a Tableau format (tde), which is a columnar database, with good compression and high performance.
  • Drag and drop environment, little or no SQL knowledge necessary to perform most of the tasks.
  • Large set of reports available, and options to create very interactive dashboards, such as custom parameters, using charts as filter for other charts, interactive filters
  • Tableau Server allows users to have access to reports via web browser.
  • Tableau Public provides free hosting of publicly-accessible reports with limited features.

When posting questions, Tableau Public is an invaluable resource. Problematic workbooks (or example workbooks demonstrating the issues in question) can be published here to help answerers find the problem more quickly and give a more thorough solution.

In addition to Stack Overflow, a good place to get solutions to Tableau questions is on the vendor's forum.

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Tableau - Filter Dimension on Max Value of Measure

I'm trying to calculate the MAX value of column D of value E which resets for every A Column. Later I just need to show the MAX row of A. Raw data looks like this: The desired view would be like this: Thanks!
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How to refresh tableau report through SSIS

I have a SSIS package which put data to a staging table from csv file and calls a procedure which makes certain updates in the staging table,now I want to refresh one tableau report from this SSIS package. Please help !!!
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Tableau keeps rounding decimals to integer in text table

I'm trying to put some data in a text table on Tableau Public and have a column of decimals rounded to two places. However, Tableau keeps rounding them to the nearest integer. This happens regardless of calculation (i.e., sum, median, etc.). The…
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Tableau cannot horizontally scroll in worksheets

I am using Tableau for data visualization and generating lists that can be exported to Excel. However, when the amount of columns get too big, I cannot see all my columns in the view (They are there though). The problem is that there doesn't seem…
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Turning Records by Date Range into Records by Day/Month Using SQL Server or Vertica

I can use either SQL Server or Vertica as the DB and Tableau as the reporting tool. A solution in any of these mediums would be helpful. DATA RESOURCES: I have a table (userActivity) with 100 records and a structure of: User, StartDate,…
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How to implement Tableau Trusted Authentication?

1) Users are prompted to login to Tableau when viewing an embedded dashboard within a web application. 2) If they close their browser, start a different browser session, or let the Tableau cookie expire, they will be prompted to login again. 3) …
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Tableau Mixed Data

I've been tasked to set up a Tableau worksheet of counts of data (ultimately to create percentages) where the contrived incoming data looks like the following. id fruit 1 apple 1 orange 1 lemon 2 apple 2 orange 3 apple 3 orange 4 …
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tableau extract vs live

I just need a bit more clarity around tableau extract VS live. I have 40 people who will use tableau and a bunch of custom SQL scripts. If we go down the extract path will the custom SQL queries only run once and all instances of tableau will use a…
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Tableau Server Could not locate unexpired trusted ticket local network

I have two servers , Server #1 one hosted in the office using the office network (this hosts the tableau server on ubuntu server) and the other server Server #2 sitting in another collocated network. The web application is hosted in server #2 and…
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Tableau server installation

I am trying to implement tableau server installation on a Ubuntu machine(AWS) as a multi-node cluster, Whenever I try to add a backgrounder process to the worker node , the node status changes to degraded . If I remove the backgrounder process then…
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Tableau: Set a filter with one value always selected and let user to choose others?

I want to create a table with a filter for use to select and compare things: Say I have a variable Var, containing values A, B, C, D, E. I want to have a filter so that an user can select one of A B C D, meanwhile E is always selected. So the…
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Tableau data source with Athena custom query

I'm getting the below error on Tableau Desktop when using the custom query, I'm successfully able to connect and see contents from the table when directly drag the table to query builder section on Tableau Desktop. Datasource used: AWS Athena Driver…
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Draw rectangular bounding boxes on map with Max/Min coordinates

I've created a table of min and max lat/long coordinates for groups of locations. I'd like to use those to draw rectangular bounding boxes on a map and include other attributes as tooltips, not sure where to start. Some example groups below. group …
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Tableau could not receive data from server: Software caused connection abort

I have a Tableau (reporting) server on Windows 10 that internally uses PostgresDB. Besides I have a PostgresDB, where my data is located, so reports are aggregated using this data. What should our end-user experience? - He or she opens in a web…
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Tableau: How do I create categories from a dimension based on the count of another dimension?

I have a spreadsheet of flight delay data, and I'm working on a worksheet that shows the total delay time per airport. I want to filter the dimension "Airports", i.e. create categories of airports, "Small", "Medium" and "Large", based on the number…
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