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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 won't import csv

I am using Tableau 10.5 and I am trying to import csv data which is a basic step. But for some reason it won't, it just says 'Loading Data' with the icon spinning round and round. The csv file is quite small too.
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Tableau Filter on field which contains MAX of another field

I have a table in Tableau that contains football teams, their top goal scorers and the number of goals these players scored. I would like to filter the table to show the team which has the player who has scored the most goals. For example, if my…
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Static column in tableau but rest all columns dynamic with filtering

I am building a tableau dashboard which has month, region, and account type filter. (Account type can have only two values either New account or old account) The table in the report should have the following…
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Errors with Tableau Extract Creation from Spark Dataframes

As per the Git hub project : werneckpaiva/spark-to-tableau I have setup Tableau-SDK in Windows OS in my local system. I am able to create the Tableau Extracts from the Spark Dataframe for up to 10 tables when it is trying to create an extract for…
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Can Tableau do impersonation when connecting to Drill?

I have Tableau Server connecting to a Drill view. I want to deal with authorisation in Drill so I need Drill to know who is requesting the data from Tableau Server. For this I need impersonation to work as otherwise session_user in Drill will always…
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Connect Tableau to .SQL File on Desktop or SharePoint

Is it possible to have Tableau run a query that is stored in an external location such as SharePoint? If not, is Alteryx a tool with this particular capability? I have a central location for my queries (SharePoint), which allows multiple people to…
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Showing values for overall dataset as well as subset

I have a dataset that contains various wait-time metrics for all appointments in a practice for a year (check-in to call-back, call-back to check-out, etc). It contains appt time (one of about 40 15 minute slots), provider, various wait times. I…
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How to set today's date to a parameter in Tableau

I know that not many answers for Tableau are on this site, but this site is my first stop to either answer others or get my answers for nearly all of my tasks. My questions is: How do you set up a parameter for today's date when a tableau workbook…
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TabPy - Invalid file path or buffer object type

Started out with TabPy recently. I have seen that python codes directly doesnt work inside Tableau (which usually runs well inside Python environment) or maybe I am doing something wrong. Here is what I am facing - I wrote the…
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Replacing Data Source from one Server to Another

We are deploying Tableau for a bank. We had created 6 test dashboards using dummy data on a staging data base using sql connection and lets say has an ip 10.10.10.10. Now we need to use the same view we had used with the dummy data on Live data…
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Tableau filter by multiple field combination

I have a problem that I can't really solve with my logic. I want to get all Customers from a certain city that made an order from the same city on a certain date range and made the order from the same city at any Date before this certain Date…
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How to draw continues lines across panels in Tableau

I want to plot a couple of measures by months over the last three years. The plot would be divided by year. So I put year and month for columns and the measure values for rows. The year is defined as DATEPART('year', [Month Date]) and month is…
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Changing referenced SQL column in all Tableau Server reports

We have an extremely popular column in a database (let's call it "column_a"). That column is being changed to "column_b" We need to change every report that points to "column_a" to "column_b" What's the best way? In the past at a previous company I…
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Date Logic - Tableau

Could someone help me achieve the date logic as below: I work for a fiscal year starting from Oct to Sep, once I finish the fiscal year and step into a new one I want the last month of last fiscal year's sales for reference until the end of new…
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Publishing and changes in workbook for tableau online

I am working on an internal reporting dashboard project . There are majorly 3 roles/level to internal reporting dashboard like higher management, project management etc. And the breakdown of information for every role/level is different as compare…
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