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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 - How to replace data source for only one sheet

I am pulling data for a couple brands into google sheets with zapier. I am pulling information from each sheet as a separate data source in tableau. The formatting across the sheets is uniform, only values are different. My objective is to use a…
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TableauSDK proxy settings

We are using TableauSDK (Java) to publish extract into Tableau Server. Our connection to Tableau server is via proxy. So we just set the java system properties https.proxyHost, https.proxyPort, http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort. But it seems the…
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Calculating employee turnover with R

so I'm trying to calculate employee turnover. What started as a seemingly easy task is proving to be a bit challenging (go easy on me, I'm an HR professional). I can find counts and sums of the columns but I am having trouble using those values in…
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Tableau Desktop Inside Tableau Server

Is there a Tableau Desktop executable inside the Tableau server installation. I have a system where Tableau server in Cloud and would want to use Tableau Desktop in the same server? Is that feasible?
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Is it possible to use tableau server without tableau desktop?

As far as I can tell you can use tableau server to make worksheets based on other worksheets, but I can't figure out how to add a new data source and create an initial worksheet without using the desktop version at all.
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Connect two data sources together without Join in Tableau

I have two data sources in tableau (A and B). The relationship is 1:n. Table A (main Table) with columns ID (Primary Key), Field 1, Field 2... . Table B with columns ID (not PK), Field X, Field Y. I want to use table B for filtering by Field X and…
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Tableau - Multiple Line Graphs Day by Day

I would like to create a dashboard showing Level Funnel for the users with respect to their register date on the same chart. My data is like the following: And from that data, I would like to create the graph like below: But in tableau I couldn't…
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Visualization - Tableau

I`m new to tableau, I have the following visualization, this is the link: My visualization My problem is that I don't know how to add more than one dashboard as tabs in just one dashboard. In my visualization, there are three dashboards "Nota…
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Why date is Dimension rather than Measure in Tableau?

According to the definition of Dimension and Measure in Tableau: Dimensions contain qualitative values(such as names, dates, or geographical data). Measures contain numeric, quantitative values that you can measure. In my opinion, date-type data…
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Tableau: COUNTD using IF statement

I have a tableau data grid that I need to count distinct records. If the status is Complete distinct count the RecordID IF [Status] = "COMPLETE" THEN COUNTD([Survey ID]) ELSE 0 END), but I am getting an error "Cannot mix aggregate and non-aggregate…
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Tableau Angular2 Integration

Has anyone tried building an Angular2 application with tableau visualizations integrated in it using the Tableau JavaScript API? According to the documentation, you're supposed to include the following script in your file which will create a tableau…
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How to collapse a sub-section in tableau crosstab

I have the following pivot table: Is there a way to collapse the "Type" section, so I only have three rows: Movie TV Episode Grand Total Basically, I'd like to be able to expand each section by clicking into it. Otherwise I'll have thousands of…
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Can I add multiple data sources without linking the tables in tableau?

I have multiple tables i want to display in the dashboard, but tableau force me to link them. Is is possible to add the tables without linking them?
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Tableau - Use different palette according to name

What I am looking for is to assign a color palette to a subcategory. I haven't find any information online for my problem. I'll explain using dummy values: Imagine I have school data, with teachers, students and janitors names. On the database,…
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Combining filtering and Dynamic Ranking in Tableau

My question is as follows: Suppose I have a data set where I have 4 fields Date Type Amount (metric 1) Sell Price (metric 2) These 4 fields are displayed in a table in my Tableau dashboard. When I click on any item in the table, I would like text…
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