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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 the Comments button

The Comments button is a great way to share and discuss data insights with other Tableau Server users. Clicking the Comments button on the top right-hand side of your page's toolbar will open a Comments pane on the right-hand side of your page. This button can be identified by an icon that appears as a speech bubble, pointing down, and the word Comments next to it. The following screenshot shows where to locate the Comments button on your page's toolbar, as well as the Comments pane that opens after this button is clicked:

Figure 8.56 – The Comments button and Comments pane

Dashboard image credit: Chimdi Nwosu

At the bottom of the Comments pane is a box titled Add a comment. This is where you can add your comments about the view and include an @mention if you want a specific user to be notified about a comment. The following screenshot shows a Comments pane with comments:

Figure 8.57 &...