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Maximizing Tableau Server

Maximizing Tableau Server

By : Patrick Sarsfield, Brandi Locker
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Maximizing Tableau Server

Maximizing Tableau Server

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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)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Tableau Server
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Section 2: Navigating and Customizing the Tableau Server Interface
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Section 3: Managing Content on Tableau Server
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Section 4: Final Thoughts

Summary

In this chapter, we examined the Tableau Server Content Toolbar, and you learned how to take advantage of all its available options. First, we discussed how to create and upload workbooks using the New menu. Next, we reviewed how to capture some or all the items on a page and perform actions on the selected content using the Select All option. You then learned how to filter the content on your page by type using the Content Type menu. We then covered how to easily arrange the content displayed on a page by utilizing the Sort by menu. This was followed by learning how to switch between Grid View and List View and when to use each for effective server navigation and content management. Finally, we went over the Filtered Search option and discussed how it is similar to and differs from Quick Search.

Learning how to use the Content Toolbar will help the way you interact with any page by knowing how to quickly make bulk changes, rearrange content, apply detailed filters, and...

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