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Maximizing Tableau Server

By : Patrick Sarsfield, Brandi Locker
Book Image

Maximizing Tableau Server

By: Patrick Sarsfield, Brandi Locker

Overview of this book

Tableau Server is a business intelligence application that provides a centralized location to store, edit, share, and collaborate on content, such as dashboards and curated data sources. This book gets you up and running with Tableau Server to help you increase end-user engagement for your published work as well as reduce or eliminate redundant tasks. You’ll explore Tableau Server's structure and how to get started by connecting, publishing content, and navigating the software interface. Next, you’ll learn when and how to update the settings of your content at various levels to best utilize Tableau Server’s features. You’ll understand how to interact with the Tableau Server interface to locate, sort, filter, manage and customize content. Later, the book shows you how to leverage other valuable features that enable you and your audience to share, download, and interact with content on Tableau Server. As you progress, you’ll cover principles to increase the performance of your published content. All along, the book shows you how to navigate, interact with, and use Tableau Server with the help of engaging examples and best practices shared by recognized Tableau professionals. By the end of this Tableau book, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to use Tableau Server to manage content, automate tasks, and increase end-user engagement.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Tableau Server
4
Section 2: Navigating and Customizing the Tableau Server Interface
8
Section 3: Managing Content on Tableau Server
12
Section 4: Final Thoughts

Examining Delete

An important part of managing content on Tableau Server well includes removing unnecessary content, including items that are no longer in use. This is beneficial because it saves space on the server, and it helps you to keep your content organized. Removing excess server content also helps developers and users to avoid confusion on which items are currently being used and which items are no longer active or needed.

You must have an Explorer (can publish) or Creator site role and have the Delete capability for the item to remove it. You can also delete an item if you are the content owner or if you are the project owner or leader where the item is located.

To delete an item, first, you must navigate to it, then click on the More actions ellipsis () button. The Delete feature can be found at the bottom of the drop-down menu. An example of where this feature is located inside a More actions drop-down menu for a workbook is shown in Figure 7.32:

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