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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 Select All option

The Select All option is a convenient way to select and make certain changes in bulk to many or all of the items on a page. You can find the Select All button on the left side of your Content Toolbar identified by the words Select All. Figure 5.7 shows the location of the Select All button on your My Content page:

Figure 5.7 – Select All option location on the My Content page

Figure 5.8 provides a screenshot of the two things that will occur after you click the Select All button. First, all the content appearing on your page will be selected. This is denoted by a filled checkbox in the top-left corner of each thumbnail item on your page when your view mode is set to Grid View. In List View, the unfilled checkboxes appearing in the first column on the left side of your page become checked. Second, you will notice that the Clear All and Actions options appeared to the right of the Select All button, along with a count of...