In the first chapter, we briefly saw how to save our work in Tableau by saving My first Tableau Workbook
with the .twb
extension. This .twb
file is a proprietary file format in Tableau, and the file saved with the .twb
extension is referred to as a Tableau workbook.
This .twb
file is an XML document that contains information regarding the sheets, dashboards, and so on that we have created in Tableau. The .twb
file is an interactive file that contains only the metadata information about our data and not the actual data, because of which it is constantly referencing a datasource. What this means is that, if we wish to share our work with our end users in a .twb
format, then we need to make sure that they have the access to the data that the .twb
file is referencing. If they don't they will not be able to use the workbook and this process will require our end users to have a Tableau Desktop installed on their machines to access our workbook. Because of...