Maximizing Tableau Server

A beginner's guide to accessing, sharing, and managing content on Tableau Server

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Patrick Sarsfield and Brandi Locker

Paid access

|Sep 2024

E-Book €30.99Institutions €130.95

Description

Enhance the way you use Tableau Server's analytical tools by learning how to manage content to drive user engagement

Key Features

Understand how to quickly get connected, start publishing workbooks, and adjust basic settings
Navigate the Tableau Server interface to filter and locate content, customize viewing options, and automate various tasks
Learn best practices for improving the efficiency of workbooks and data sources

Book Description

Tableau Server is a business intelligence application that provides a centralized location to store, edit, share, and collaborate on content, such as dashboards and curated data sources. This book gets you up and running with Tableau Server to help you increase end-user engagement for your published work as well as reduce or eliminate redundant tasks.
You’ll explore Tableau Server's structure and how to get started by connecting, publishing content, and navigating the software interface. Next, you’ll learn when and how to update the settings of your content at various levels to best utilize Tableau Server’s features. You’ll understand how to interact with the Tableau Server interface to locate, sort, filter, manage and customize content. Later, the book shows you how to leverage other valuable features that enable you and your audience to share, download, and interact with content on Tableau Server. As you progress, you’ll cover principles to increase the performance of your published content. All along, the book shows you how to navigate, interact with, and use Tableau Server with the help of engaging examples and best practices shared by recognized Tableau professionals.
By the end of this Tableau book, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to use Tableau Server to manage content, automate tasks, and increase end-user engagement.

What you will learn

Get well-versed in Tableau Server s interface to quickly and easily access essential content
Explore the different types of content and navigate through the project hierarchy quickly
Understand how to connect, publish, manage, and modify content on Tableau Server
Discover how to share content and collaborate with others
Automate tedious tasks by creating custom views, alerts, subscriptions, and data refresh schedules
Build data visualizations using Web Edit
Understand how to monitor disparate metrics on multiple dashboards

Who this book is for

This Tableau software book is for BI developers, data analysts, and everyday users who have access to Tableau Server and possess basic web navigation skills. No prior experience with Tableau Server is required.

What is Tableau Server?
How to Connect and Publish to Tableau Server
Tableau Server Navigation Pane
Tableau Server Top Toolbar
Filtering and Sorting Content
Navigating Content Pages in Tableau Server
What is in the More Actions (
Interacting with Views on Tableau Server
Tableau Server Best Practices
Conclusion

Table of contents

Authors

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PDF ISBN: 978-1-80107-657-9

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2024

Language: English

Pages: 362

Related subjects:

Computer sciences,

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Maximizing Tableau Server

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