Tableau
### Brief description Here are the main takeaway messages: - There are 3 main ways to use tableau: Tableau Desktop, Tableau Online, and Tableau Server. - It is possible to run Tableau server locally in a Linux Docker container to make it reproducible.
- For Tableau Desktop, it is possible to save a dashboard as a “packaged workbook”. Packaged workbooks contain the workbook along with a copy of any local file data sources and background images. - It is also possible to publish workbooks and data to the web. This will allow people in your organization to view, interact with, download, edit, and save published views, even if they do not use Tableau Desktop. ### Long description There are 3 main ways to use tableau: Tableau Desktop, Tableau Online, and Tableau Server. For Tableau Desktop, it is possible to save a dashboard as a “packaged workbook”. Packaged workbooks contain the workbook along with a copy of any local file data sources and background images. In this way, the workbook is no longer linked to the original data sources and images. Packaged workbooks are saved as a single file with a .twbx file extension. Anyone with the file has access to the full dashboard via Tableau Desktop. It is also possible to publish workbooks and data to the web. This will allow people in your organization to view, interact with, download, edit, and save published views, even if they do not use Tableau Desktop. One feature of Tableau is that it is possible to publish workbook’s and data to the web individually. For example, if you wanted to just make your dataset available to others, you could publish your data to the web, and allow others to create Tableau workbooks using that data. One thing to note with this approach, is that everyone is essentially sharing the same data source, and therefore any changes to the data would be reflected in any workbook that references it. Here are the official steps for publishing a tableau workbook online: https://help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/publish_workbooks_howto.html If you find a packaged Tableau workbook online that you would like to work on locally, you just have to download the .twbx file and “Unpackage” the workbook. On a Windows or macOS computer, rename the file with a .zip extension (for example, from myfile.twbx to myfile.zip) and then double-click it. When you unpackage a workbook, you get a regular workbook file (.twb), along with a folder that contains the data sources and images that were packaged with the workbook. It is also possible to run Tableau using a Docker container. A Tableau server in a Container image is a Docker image that runs an entire self-contained Tableau server application. However, this comes with some limitations as some of the Tableau features such as Kerberos or Resource Monitoring Tool (RMT) are not supported in this server image. ### Links Some of the useful links can be found below: - Learn Tableau - Official Documentation - How to Publish a Workbook - [How to add Documentation] (https://interworks.com/blog/2020/02/24/how-to-improve-your-tableau-work-with-documentation/)