Chapter 8. Publishing and Interacting in Tableau Server

It's time to share your work! This chapter is the culmination of everything you've learned since the beginning of the book. It's also the first chapter where you'll use a tool other than Tableau Desktop: Tableau Server/Online.

Note

As Tableau Server and Tableau Online are almost the same product (you can learn more about this in Chapter 2, The Tableau Core), we will use the name Tableau Server for both products throughout this book.

Thanks to Tableau Server, users can connect to new or published data sources to create new analyses and open published Workbooks to interact with them. In this chapter, our main focuses are as follows:

• An introduction to Tableau Server
• Publishing and modifying content
• Interacting with published content

Note

This book doesn't cover Tableau Server's installation and configuration. This is a technical aspect that requires you to work with your IT team. You can find all the...