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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 workbook XML schema

Does anybody know where I can get the XML Schema for Tableau Workbooks, Data Extracts and Data Sources? I know I could reverse engineer using existing report files but I will not get all the possible values for the different complex data types. I am…
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Refresh tableau extracts from a local csv file

I’d be grateful for some help with automating Tableau server data extract refreshes. This seems straightforward if your data source is a database server but I want to refresh from a csv file on the Tableau server. Our setup is that we have a Unix…
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Can tableau extract be loaded into R

I have a tableau extract. I want to analyze the data in that tableau extract using R. Does any one know how to load tableau extract into R?
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Copy Cassandra table to Hive

I've been stuck on this problem for days. So any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to make a copy of cassandra table to hive (so that I can put it into hive metastore and then access it from Tableau). The Hive -> Tableau part works, but…
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Bootstrap 3 - how to embed a responsive object

I am trying to embed a tableau object that uses javascript and params to create an iframe on a site an example of the embed html is
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Tableau Hierarchy Filter for Scatterplot

I am very new to Tableau, and I am trying to create a Scatterplot which can be viewed at different levels within the Hierarchy on the same Dashboard. For example, suppose I have employee counts, company counts and population density and I have this…
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How to convert week into Date(mm/dd/yyyy)?

I need to convert the week field into Date(mm/dd/yyyy). Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19 Week 20 Week 21 Week 22 Actually I have…
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How to use one filter on two separate fields at the same time

I am working on a Tableau visualisation of network data, showing trends in user behaviour. I have a table with users (USERS) and a table with network messages (MESSAGES): Each message has a sender and a receiver from the list of users. I have two…
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Error when calling Rcpp function from Tableau. How to interpret and debug Rserve logs?

I'm having a lot of trouble connecting an R function I wrote to Tableau. The function relies on Rcpp. In R, if I call prob_1_beats_2(1, 2, 3, 4) it works just fine. However, when I try to connect to Tableau using Rserve, I get this error: Error in…
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How to refresh the extracted datasource automatically in Tableau Desktop at specific intervals

I'm using Tableau Desktop 8.0 to create a visualization (.twbx file) by extracting the data from MySQL database. But this database is updated on weekly basis. That is, at the beginning of every week the data in the database changes. So is it…
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How to assign values to variables in tableau

I have a field named Datavalue 2, I have to manually assign value to that field,How do I write the calculations for this. Any leads for this will be helpful. Thanks in advance
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TABLEAU: Create global filter from a secondary data source to multiple data sources on dashboard

I have a Tableau dashboard with various visualizations created from 3 data sources (i.e. A,B, C). Each data source has a relationship (join) with the same secondary data source (i.e. D), and the secondary data sources provides information to create…
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When running Tableau against BigQuery, there is no Query History

When running a report on the Tableau Cloud against BigQuery, there is no Query History. Even when I refresh the datasource with a new day of data, and I see that the report now shows the new date, there is no Query History. I need to see the…
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Tableau: filtering based on values of other variables of a parameter

I have a simple problem on Tableau I am not able to solve. I would like to display a graph showing a measure over time. I would like to compare one client that the user select through a parameter to all other clients not selected. The graph would…
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Tableau blended aggregation calculation issue

I'm trying to blend 2 data sources in Tableau. When a field is brought from the secondary datasource into the calculated field in the primary data source it forces me to aggregate at that point. My calculation is a multiplication, and when Tableau…
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