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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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Present running total in a table column

I'm building a simple table to display event bookings, grouped by date, in descending date order so that when the report is refreshed, the latest totals are displayed at the top of the table. I want to present a running total alongside the daily…
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How to convert unix-epoch to human time in Tableau?

In the Tableau, I have a column containing the timestamps in unix-time format, which I wish to convert it to Human time. Is it possible to use R script in Calculated Field for such time conversion? Tableau screenshot
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How to filter measure names in Tableau?

I was curious if anyone knew how to filter measure names so when a value is selected, only certain measure names appear. For example: When 'Finance' is selected, Show Profit, Sales, Revenue When 'Investment' is selected Show Stock Price, # of…
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How to work simultaneosly on multiple worksheets in Tableau?

How is it possible to switch to another worksheet while the results or computations of the current worksheet are being fetched? Currently we have to wait for the current computation to complete before moving to another sheet. Ideally I would like to…
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Equal sized bins Tableau

I am trying to build a view with 'n' number of equal sized bins. How can we have Tableau define the size of the bin automatically? say like if the user inputs Number_of_bins=5 on sum(sales) the size of the bin should be automatically split. to the…
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Changing filter type

My date filter looks like this but i want it to be a dropdown menu like this how do i do it? these are the only formats i can select
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Google Analytics to Tableau - options for middleware DBMS

I work on an advanced web app that stores user activity in Google Analytics. In the current design, the information is transferred from GA to Tableau. But we need to do more filtering and data management than can be done easily with Tableau. The…
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Tableau - Combining multiple line graphs into single plot

I am trying to get all my lines to overlap on a single graph. How would I go about doing this? Here is what I managed to get so far: And when I say overlap, I mean something similar to this: Here is more information about my data: Each of the…
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Using Tableau to do VLookup

New to Tableau so sorry if this is obvious, but I had a hunt and couldn't find/understand anything. So I have a cake shop and I want to know if people have purchased both éclairs and Eccles cakes in the same order ORDER ID item 0001 …
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ODBC driver for HBase/Phoenix

I need to connect Tableau to HBase or Phoenix and Tableau does not support JDBC. Bummer! I've read about the proprietary Simba driver but haven't seen any reports of people using it. I don't feel like forking over money when it's not ideal, and my…
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viz.dispose() does not work

We are using Tableau API to embed two workbooks. each workbook is embedded in an iframe. The issue is when we go from one workbook to another we get the error "tableau-2.0.0.min.js:147 Uncaught Error: Another viz is already present in element…
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Tableau viz embedded in IPython notebook

I have published a Tableau 9.3 viz on Tableau public: https://public.tableau.com/profile/michel.page#!/vizhome/exercice1/Courbesventesetprofit I have succedded to have this viz displayed in a web page by integrating the code given by the 'Share'…
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Tableau Desktop- Does it require Tableau Server ?

Does Tableau Desktop Professional require Tableau Server? I know they are two different products that are shipped separately, but I am wondering what your business requirements would be if you were to use both Desktop and Server? Basically, what…
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Read tableau data (*.tdsx) in R or any other tools

I would like to read a data file saved in Tableau data format (*.tdsx) in R. I'm wondering whether it is possible in R or any other tools can do that. My scenario is I have data saved in Tableau server and I connect via Tableau desktop. I make…
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Share HDInsight SPARK SQL Table saveAsTable does not work

I want to show the data from HDInsight SPARK using tableau. I was following this video where they have described how to connect the two systems and expose the data. currently my script itself is very simple as shown below: /* csvFile is an RDD of…
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