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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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How to convert a Tableau extract data to csv (or xls)

I have successfully converted from a Tableau .twbx file to .twb and now have a .tde file for the data. How can this .tde be converted to either .csv or .xls(x) ?
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How to avoid aggregation of measure values in tableau

I'm trying to retrieve and analyze records from SQL server. Whenever I drag the measure values to rows field it gets auto aggregating itself in tableau. I dont want this aggregation to be done since my values doesn't make sense when it gets…
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Embed Tableau with Authentication

I have a requirement to embed a tableau report into another web page. We are using the tableau JS: http://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/embed_code.htm Question is: Is there an authentication option whereby our application (web page)…
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In which case PERMISSION_DENIED error occurs in tableau SDK?

I am using tableau java SDK version 10.0 and I tried to publish the datasource in the sample project which is not belong to that user, I got SERVER_ERROR instead of PERMISSION_DENIED error e.g Sample project belongs to sample users (user1, user2)…
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Count the number of instances of values across multiple dimensions in Tableau

I'm currently looking to count the number of instances a values shared across multiple dimensions. For example, say I have the following set of data: And I want to return something like: But ideally in the form of a bar graph. I want to keep the…
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Count the number of occurrences of Null in a column in tableau

I am relatively new to Tableau and I am wondering if there is a way to calculate null values in a column. I have a column called Email of type string and want to know how many people have not entered their email i.e. Null. I tried to create a…
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BigQuery Credential Problems when Accessing Google Sheets Federated Table

I defined a table as a federated table which refers to a google sheet. It works perfectly well when I query it from the google bigquery web UI. However, if I try to query it using the Tableau Software BigQuery driver, I get the following error…
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How to customize bullet charts in Tableau

We test people and then provide analysis for managers and HR teams. I have a chart that I created in Excel which I am struggling (as a novice) to recreate in Tableau. I started with bullet charts but the problem I had with that is that the bands…
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Tableau Javascript API HTTPS isn't working

I am trying to embed a report onto my website but getting the following error Mixed Content: The page at 'https://mywebsite.com/blah/blah' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure resource 'http://my-tableau-report-location.com/dashboard'.…
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Comparing two histograms within the same chart in tableau

I have a histogram of my entire dataset that I want to compare to a histogram of a filtered subset of that data. I can do this in two separate sheets, and then show them side by side in a dashboard. Is there any way to combine these two histograms…
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How to load large table into tableau for data visualization?

I am able to connect tableau with my database but the table size is really large here. Everytime I try to load the table into tableau, it is crashing and I am not able to find any work around. The table size varies from 10 million - 400 million…
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Tableau - weekly average from daily data

Using Tableau 8.1. Daily data like this: Date Sales 1-1-14 $5 1-2-14 $2 ... 6-15-14 $15 Which can be aggregated to weeks of course Week 1 $15 Week 2 $12 Week 3 $10 Week 4 $13 etc. I would like to get the weekly average of…
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Dual axis chart from the same measure in Tableau

I'm aware of how to create a dual-axis chart using two different measures for the Y-axis. Is there a way for me to create a dual-axis chart using a same measure but on two different range in the dual-axis? For example, I have a column which contains…
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Create a grouped bar chart with multiple measures by color

I'd like to create a grouped bar chart with multiple measures by color. I have the following measures: Clicks Impressions Revenue Profit I have a total of 2 web sites that I am collecting data from, so I'd like to have a different color for each…
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DAX equivalent for MDX Calculated Member

We have a SSAS 2012 tabular model at our disposal which we are reporting on with Tableau. Currently, we have a dimension [Material] with an attribute [Department]. What we're trying to do is create an MDX calculated member equivalent in DAX for…
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