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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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Images not showing up in published Tableau dashboard when using URL actions

Good day, I have created a simple URL action that loads an image when one clicks on a name. I have a dashbaord with two sheets and an webpage between them. The first sheet shows the stats of a particular name. The second sheet is a table of names…
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Tableau 8.2 with Bigquery, how to do automatic authentication refresh?

Tableau 8.2 desktop version. We refresh the dashboard every 4 minutes(with AutoIt script to actually execute click and F5), but every around half an hour, it pops up this dialogue requesting a manual activation of bigquery authentication. How…
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Getting Tableau to talk to Spark and Cassandra

The DataStax spark cassandra connector is great for interacting with Cassandra through Apache Spark. With Spark SQL 1.1, we can use the thrift server to interact with Spark with Tableau. Since Tableau can talk to Spark, and Spark can talk to…
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Export Tableau notebook to standalone interactive output?

I have just started using Tableau and I love creating visualizations with it. However, I am trying to export the visualizations into some standalone format, but I do not know how to. I see that I can export as image / pdf / excel crosstab, but all…
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Tableau data Extract Fails with Large Data source

I am using Tableau Desktop 8.2 with connection to Amazon Redshift creating an extract and publishing data source to tableau server is my task, but recently i'm encountering some issue like "Data connection Lost Unable to create an…
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how to place tableau reports in .net web form application

In C# 2010/2012 .net web form applications, I know that ssrs reports can be accessed in the application using a reportviewer control. However now my company is going to be using tableau. Thus I am wondering if tableau can be accessed by a .net…
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Connect Parse.com Database to Tableau

Has anyone connected parse.com to Tableau desktop before? How did you go about it? I've been googling instructions to no avail. Any guidance and/or links to resources greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
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Tableau Fill Certain Countries on Map and Also add Lat Long Points to Map

I have a set of latitude and longitude points that I plot on the tableau map. In addition to that, I want to fill some of the countries on the map. The lat long points are not necessarily in the countries I want to fill. Some of them are and some…
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Default range for date range filter in tableau

I want to set the default range on a date filter to show me the last 10 days - so basically looking at the lastDate (max date) in the data and default filtering only on the last 10 days (maxDate - 10) How it looks now: I still would want to the see…
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Bad OData Format when accessing OData feed from Tableau 8.1

I have trouble connecting to an OData feed, as I get this error message : "Bad OData Format. Make sure you are using a URL that points to a valid OData Source" I can access the url in a browser (and I get the expected JSON response), and I can…
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Tableau fact table data structure

I have some movie information in a database, simplified it looks like this: table movie ----------- id title 1234 batman 4456 spiderman table movie_info ----------------- id movie_id info_type_id info 1 1234 1 …
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Tableau dashboard for mobile/tablets

I am new to Tableau and trying to understand how convenient it is to prepare a dashboard which can be accessed through web browsers, tablets and mobile phones. I have few questions which are: Does tableau already provides a responsive dashboard…
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How to read a tableau extract file using java?

I have started to use Tableau recently and was digging on Data Extract API. I understand that Tableau could connect to various data sources, pull data and create a tableau data extract file. I wanted to understand if we could read any *.tde file…
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Publishing Reports on tableau via tabcmd

I wanted to publish tableau reports via tab cmd commands and was able to do it successfully, one concern I have is "Connecting the twbx file to a data source' via tabcmd commands. Following are the commands which I used to : Login to tableau server…
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Can Tableau be used in customer-facing and SaaS web applications?

I was hoping someone could help me answer a couple of questions regarding Tableau. I am not as familiar with the platform, but I have a client who is looking for a reporting/analytics/data visualization platform that they could use for many of the…
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