Category: Developer

In large Tableau Server installations you can have a tremendous amount of workbooks. As migrations with Tableau Server are historically already very easy many companies are just looking at some of the most popular workbooks to see if the upgrade has been successfull. Nevertheless the amount of these popular workbooks can grow over time and you might want to automate this last mile with TabCompare.

So if you want to know more about where to get it from and how to use it, I highly recommend you to read the blog post of a good friend of mine – Alex Ross! He’s the unofficial Mr Web Data Connector! The only reason why he’s not a Tableau Zen Master is that he’s actually working for Tableau! 😉

Without further ado:

TabCompare: Automated Content QA For Tableau Server Upgrades

The following video is demonstrating how you can connect Tableau to a REST API – LIVE – by making use of a 3rd party software (which needs to be licensed!). It is called Custom Connector SDK from Progress. It’s an SDK which you can think of as a framework which you can adjust to your REST API. Before I’m going to show how to leverage OpenAcess together with Tableau. I’m going to explain how the architectural flow looks like. The demo will then leverage a REST API which contains stock data.

Ressources/Call to Action:

• Download the workbook from the video
• 2-hour tutorial for Custom ODBC
• Start to embed Tableau (Video)
• Tableau Developer

Special thanks to the whole Progress team! Great attitude, very responsive and I really enjoyed a great webinar with you guys today! Thank you Sumit Sarkar, Saikrishna Bobba, Nishanth Kadiyala, Dennis Bennett, Dennis Bennett, Dipak Patel, Petya Popova-Chilikova, Michael Burritt, Kim Bears and John Fremer! Looking forward to more great customer cases in the future!