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Tableau

Manage analytics projects and read workbooks

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Written by Johan Åkerman

Introduction

Connect Tableau to Sana to manage your analytics projects and access workbooks. Browse projects, create new ones, and read workbooks directly from Sana. In summary, the connector has the following key characteristics:

  • Category: Analytics

  • Connector type: Real-time

  • Auth type: API keys

  • Hosting type: Managed

Capabilities

This connector is able to do the following:

Capability

Find projects

Create projects

List workbooks

Read workbooks

Tools

While the capabilities above describe what the connector can do at a high level, the underlying tools show exactly which operations the agent can use when you ask Sana about Tableau. In practice, the agent may call one or more tools to achieve a single capability.

Tool

Create project

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Query projects

Scope and permissions

This connector uses API keys. When you connect your account, we securely store your keys to connect to this connector's APIs. The scopes for this connector depends on the scopes you assign your API key in Tableau when generating the key.

Set up instructions

Prerequisites:

  • Your Sana workspace admin has enabled this integration – if the workspace admin has disabled the integration it won't appear in the list of available integrations.

Step 1: Go to the integrations page in Sana

In Sana, click on ... More in the sidebar, then select Integrations

Step 2: Find Tableau in the list of available integrations

Scroll to the Available integrations section and locate Tableau.

Step 3: Connect the integration

Click the integration card and select "Connect just for me", this will open a pop-up powered by Pipedream. Follow the steps in the pop-up to complete the set-up.

Step 4: Provide your Tableau credentials

You'll be asked to paste the credentials for Tableau so Sana can store them securely and use them to call the connector's APIs on your behalf.

Step 5: Complete the set up

You've successfully connected your Tableau account. Click Continue to complete the setup and start using the connector.

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