Tableau roles – Viewer, Explorer, and Creator
The method Tableau uses for product licensing is important to understand as it has ramifications on the data modeling capabilities available to the user of the Tableau platform.
For Tableau Cloud and most Tableau Server deployments, Tableau’s first and primary licensing method is by user role. The three Tableau roles are:
- Viewer – This role is aimed at executives and other information consumers. A person who is assigned a Viewer role has a robust set of capabilities available to them for exploring and sharing data. As the Viewer role is aimed at the information consumer, it does not allow for the creation and maintenance of the data modeling capabilities we will learn in this chapter and throughout this book.
- Explorer – This role is aimed at business users. A person who is assigned an Explorer role can create data visualizations for themselves and others and do everything someone with a Viewer...