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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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Downloading tableau workbook from tableau server with data

I am new to using tableau server. I wanted to know if it was possible to download a tableau workbook (which is linked to a live SQL DB) with the data from the tableau server? Basically I would want to have a downloaded packaged tableau file which I…
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How to see Tableau Custom SQL on server without downloading workbook?

Oftentimes I need to troubleshoot a workbook that another person at my company has created and published to our server. To troubleshoot, I need to see their connection details, specifically their Custom SQL, to understand what data they are using in…
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Tableau Tickets - POST to get ticket returning login form, not ticket ID

I see there aren't many Tableau experts floating around StackOverflow, but perhaps someone out there has had this problem before, and knows the solution. I'm a total noob at Tableau, so please forgive me if this question is inane. Thanks in…
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How to scrape a public tableau dashboard?

Every day I need to downlaod the data available on a public Tableau dashboard. After defining the parameters of interest (time series frequency, time series interval, etc) the dashboard allows you to download the series. My life would be reasonably…
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Subprocess run, check_output, Popen returns empty string when I run the script from a batch file and from Task Scheduler

I have a batch file which is running a python script and in the python script, I have a subprocess function which is being ran. I have tried subprocess.check_output, subprocess.run, subprocess.Popen, all of them returns me an empty string only when…
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How can I pull annotations from a data set in Tableau?

I have a bunch of Tableau sheets showing sales over the year by date. I'd like to add some annotations, but I'd like to add them to all sheets by date. So ideally, I'd have a data set like this: date | annotation 2019-01-01 | Started the year…
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How to extract view meta data from tableau

I need to extract metadata from view. When I was reading tableau rest API documentation there is no ways mention in the rest api for sheet metadata and also not mention measure and dimension API extraction. If anyone knows the way how to extract…
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Web Scraping a tableauViz into an R dataframe

I have spent a lot of time searching for an answer to this, but have not found anything yet. What I am trying to accomplish is to scrape Tableau table information that is contained in a tableauViz element and propagate it into an R dataframe. In my…
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Making a scatterplot in PowerBI

I'm used to using Tableau (similar to powerBI), and I'm now testing powerBI as well. I've been trying to receate a plot from Tableau, but I'm unable to do it (see the images). Now I realize that this probably has a very simple solution, and I…
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How to delete workbook from tableau server in python

I have to upload a lot of worksheets to tableau server. Many of those will be created and uploaded temporarily. I want to delete some workbook uploaded to tableau server since those are no more in use. How can I do that in python programmatically?
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finding target worksheet for action in twb (xml) file

My intention is to find target worksheet for actions in tableau workbook. where should I search for that target worksheet correspond to some particular action in twb(xml) file? For example:
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Word cloud in python with three separate values

I want to create a word cloud in python such that every word comes tagged in the colour of data source Say I have: comment Data source Hello there 1 (red) Hello! 1 (red) Hi there 2 (green) im good 3…
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Commas in String numbers in Tableau

I am using a number inside a calculation and have to turn it into a string. When I do this, I lose the comma formatting. Using another post: Changing Number Format in a String However the formula, I am…
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How to sort by any measure in a Tableau table

I've built a new worksheet that has two dimensions and several facts. When I try to sort on any column, it only seems to sort within the dimensions. Is it possible to sort based on the column, ignoring dimensions? I find if I concatenate the two…
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I have Tableau twbx files. How do I convert them to xls or csv or export the data?

I just downloaded the data (or what I believe it is the data) that someone posted online. The result is two twbx files. How can I convert these or export these files to something more common (xls, csv etc) without buying their software (which might…
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