See demos of the steps to take and learn the pros, cons and requirements for each option. We discuss Tableau Desktop, Tableau Public, Tableau Server, Tableau Metrics, Tableau mobile for publishing and sharing Tableau content. Watch the demos and download this deck at: https://senturus.com/resources/6-ways-to-publish-share-tableau-dashboards/.
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4. Agenda
• Introduction
• How to determine the best method of sharing Tableau
• Demo: six different methods of sharing
• Discuss pros and cons of each method
• Senturus overview
• Additional resources
• Q&A
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Tableau products
Tableau Desktop
For creating dashboards and ad
hoc analysis
Explore and visualize data
Package visualizations for
distribution
Tableau Server/Tableau Online
• Allows you to build and share
visualizations
• Publish interactive dashboards
• Secure and organize content
• Collaborate with other analysts
Tableau Mobile
• A mobile app for viewing Tableau
content (both online and offline)
• Available on both iOS and Android
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8. Tableau “free” products
•Tableau Reader
• Can be used to open and interact with Tableau visualizations
• Interactive with sorting and filtering
• Similar to Adobe Acrobat reader
• Available to everyone as a free download
•Tableau Public
• Public sharing of dashboards and visualizations
• Free hosting service available
• Allows for embedding into websites and blogs
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Summary - Tableau products for
building and sharing
Developing Tableau
• Tableau Desktop
• Tableau Server
• Tableau Public
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Viewing Tableau
• Tableau Desktop
• Tableau Server
• Tableau Reader
• Tableau Mobile
• Tableau Public
• Embedded Tableau
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6 ways to publish and share Tableau
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1.Tableau Desktop
2.Tableau Server
3.Tableau Public
4.Tableau Mobile
5.Metrics
6.Embedded Tableau
11. Which option should you use?
Consider:
1. Device types used by your intended audience
2. Whether users can install client-based software
3. Whether the audience needs to edit or change the workbooks
4. Your access to Tableau Server
5. Security requirements
6. Tableau license type (cost and availability)
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13. Sharing options - Tableau Desktop
•Save a Tableau Desktop packaged workbook
•Publish to Tableau Public
•Publish to Tableau Server or Tableau Online
•Create device specific layout
•Publish to PDF or PowerPoint
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14. Tableau Server/Tableau Online
• Web-based development environment
• Provides data governance and centralized data
management
• Supports multiple methods of sharing
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16. Sharing options - Tableau Server
•Create or edit a visualization
•Create device specific layout to be used by Tableau Mobile
•Metrics
•Subscriptions
•Download a copy
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17. Tableau Server – Metrics
Metrics are separate from dashboards
Metrics are refreshed with extract or every 60
minutes for live connections
More options on Tableau Mobile
(adjust and compare)
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18. Tableau Public
•“Free” client-based development tool (no license)
• Supports sharing to Tableau Public
• Can only use a few data sources
•Tableau Public is also a Tableau hosted web-site
• Can be used to publish and embed Tableau
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19. Sharing options - Tableau Public
Use Desktop to publish workbook to Tableau Public
Use Tableau Public to create a visualization and save to
Tableau Public
Embed Tableau Public content in a website
Use permalink to embed a website in Tableau Public
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20. Tableau can be embedded in web applications including
SharePoint, Salesforce and custom mobile apps
Tableau Server is available with Embedded Analytics pricing
Note: If your audience doesn’t have a license, you can embed
using Tableau Public
For more info on embedding Tableau see the Tableau
Embedding playbook https://tableau.github.io/embedding-playbook/#
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Other options – Embedded Tableau
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Tableau sharing demo
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22. Save or export packaged workbooks
Publish to Tableau Public or Tableau Server
Save to static files - PDF and PowerPoint
Consider how to keep data current
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Tableau Desktop sharing – review
23. Publish to Tableau Server
Tableau Metrics to publish a KPI
Use subscriptions (daily, weekly)
Create device specific layouts
Download image, PDF, PowerPoint or workbook
Consider how to refresh data
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Tableau Server sharing – review
24. Tableau Public is both a development tool and a web-site
Best for non-proprietary data
Great way to practice using Tableau
Does not require a license (Tableau Desktop “lite”)
Free!!
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Tableau Public sharing – review
25. Can embed Tableau Public for free
Embedded Analytics pricing is available
Other options to embed Tableau in
apps like Salesforce
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Embedded Tableau – review
26. Install Tableau Bridge for local data
Refresh manually then republish
Use a live connection to a database
Publish the data source to Tableau Server and set up refresh
schedule
Use Tableau Prep to build a flow to transform data
Tableau Prep Conductor can be used to schedule Tableau Prep
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Keeping data current
27. Tableau license types
Creator
Can create workbooks and data sources
Includes Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and Tableau Prep
Explorer
Can create workbooks against existing data sources
Can edit workbooks
Browser-based editing and viewing
Viewer
Browser-based viewing
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28. Tableau sharing - developer
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Tableau License
Type
Creator
Tableau Desktop
Tableau Server
Explorer
Viewer or
No license
Tableau Public
29. Summary
What to consider when sharing Tableau
There are many options …
• Tableau Desktop
• Tableau Server
• Tableau Public
• Tableau Mobile
• Metrics
• Embedded Tableau
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30. More resources: blogs
Six Ways to Publish & Share Tableau Content
1. https://senturus.com/blog/six-ways-to-publish-share-tableau-content/
Tableau Server vs. Desktop Comparison
1. https://senturus.com/blog/tableau-server-vs-desktop-comparison-2/
Lessons & Limitations of Tableau Metrics, the KPI Report
Builder
1. https://senturus.com/blog/lessons-limitations-of-tableau-metrics-the-kpi-dashboard-builder/
Tableau Licensing: Creator, Explorer & Viewer Explained
1. https://senturus.com/blog/tableaus-new-licensing-creator-explorer-and-viewer-explained/
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And welcome everybody to 6 ways to Publish and Share Tableau. I have taught Tableau fundamentals to over 900 people over the years, and it is a great ½ day class At the end all the students have built a nice dashboard. The next question is usually how do I share what I have built. While that may seem straight forward and easy there are a lot of options for sharing to choose from. And the options available depend on the Tableau Product you are using to create your dashboards and worksheets. In this webinar my goal is to show you the all of most commonly used options for sharing Tableau.
Before we get started for those of you that are new to Tableau I want to give a brief overview of the Tableau products we will be discussing today
Tableau Desktop the original tool for building and viewing tableau content. It is a desktop application that you download.
Tableau Server is browser- based. And is both an environment for building Tableau visualizations and an environment where content can be organized secured and managed
Tableau Mobile is a app that can be downloaded onto your phone and can be use to view content hosted on Tableau server and present it in a mobile device friendly format
A lot of people arent aware there are a coulple of "free" tableau product that allow you to access Tableau packaged workbooks.
The first is Tableau Reader it is sort of a fre reader for tableau but it is still interactive when it comes to filters and parameters
And there is another free downloadable product called Tableau Bulic which does allow for edit ing of Tableau workbooks but your work can only be saved to the Tableau public website so it is good for practicing and but not for non proprietary data
Now you learned a bit about the products for developing Tableau I want to break it down and make sure you know which products are for developing Tableau Content and which ones are for viewing Tableau content . As you can see many are for both . I also included Embedded Tableau but it is not a product per se it is more of an infrastructure.
For todays Webinar we will demonstrate and discuss these 6 methods. In reality you will see a few more options as many of these have offshoots . For example, with Tableau Server you can use subscriptions. A lot of these options and how exactly they work will become clearer when I demonstrate each method.
Now you know the products are available what are some of the things you should take into account when determining the best way to share your tableau content with your intended audience?
The things you need to consider are:….
Device types -Do they use a phone, web browser, ipad or desktop
Can they install client based software or is that controlled at the company level?
Do they need to just change filters or do they need to update data or change the visualizations?
Do they have a login to Tableau Server
And what is their Tableau license type
And is the data private or publicly available
The first product for sharing tableau we will discuss is Tableau Desktop. This is the original Tableau tool and can be used for both development viewing, data analysis and sharing and as most of you know it needs to be downloaded. There are lots of ways to share using Tableau Desktop
Tableau Desktop has lots of different options for sharing
you can save or export to packaged workbook that can be opened by Tableau Reader or Tableau desktop
You can publish to Tableau Public
You can publish to your Tableau Server or if you use the SAAS Tableau server Tableau Online you can publish to that
You can create have one dashboard with different device specific layouts for ipads and phone ewhen you publish to Tableau Server thand share the link these will automatically get picked up
And you can publish a static image to powerpoint or pdf
You can now do almost all of your dashboard and worksheet creation now from the browser using Tableau Servers web authoring environment and once your tableau content is in Tableau server you have more options to share.
I do wany to point out Tableau Server is for more than content creation. It had so many options for Data Governance, security and really helps you organize and centrally manage your data, your users and your tableau workbooks.
Once a visualization is on Tableau server whether is was created by Tableau Desktop or from the Tableau server web authoring environment you have quite a options for sharing.
You can create a device specific layout in server as well but editing these is a bit more limited in Server
You can also create a metric or set up a subscription which sends an email on specific interval
Here you can see what Metrics look like on Tableau mobile. This are a releatively new feature so I want to point out a few good to know facts about them
Metrics are separate from dashboards
Metrics are refreshed with extract or every 60 minutes for live connections
More options on Tableau Mobile (adjust and compare)
We talked about sharing options using Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server but Tableau Public is another option and it downt require a Tableau license.
Tableau Public refers to both the downloadable client tool which looks very much like a Tableau Desktop with a few less options and it is a Public Tableau server site called Tableau Public. Assuming you have data that is ok place on a public site it is a good option for sharing Tableau and can also be used to embed Tableau from your own web site.
You can save your workbook or dashboards to the Tableau public website from Tableau Desktop
You can download the Tableau Public development tool and create a new visualization / workbook and save it to Tableau Public Website
You can embed Tableau public in your website
And you can set up a permalink when publishing which embeds your site beneath the Tableau Public workbook I know this sounds confusing, but this will be clearer when you see all of this demoed in a few minutes
There are also options to embed tableau in other apps such as salesforce. Using these iptions you can embed your tableau dashboard within salesforce using Tableau Viz Lightning web component. And If your Tableau Server is configured to use Active Directory and automatically authenticate users you can embed the Tableau web part in a new or existing SharePoint page so users can see your tableau content
Let review what we learned about Tableau Desktop
Now lets review the options in Tableau Server
Lets review what Tableau Public is and what it is well suited for
This is a big subject but you saw the types of things you can do by embedding Tableau
The image on the right shows how Work.com used the Tableau Viz Lightning web component to add a Global COVID-19 Tracker dashboard into their Salesforce
Normally publishing Tableau dashboards is not a one and done operation. You data and your Tableau Server instance are separated by a firewall .The only way your data is always up to date is if you have a connection to a live database that is always up to date. Other than that the data is usually updated on a hourly weekly or monthy basis. I would like to spend a few minutes covering options for keeping your data fresh.
This is just a high-level overview of the options and this subject could easily be a webinar all by itself
I also want to spend a moment on license types and what you can and cant do depending on your Tableau license
There are basically 3 types only the creator license has access to Tableau Desktop the explorer license can still create new content if the data sources are published and can edit existing workbook if they are granted the permission to do so
Viewer is just for viewing no editing or creaing and they can only view workbooks published to Tableau Server or Tableau Online
I am not going to spend a lot of time of this but if you are confused about licensing I flow chart or decision tree to help you decide which tool you should use to share
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