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Mastering Tableau 2026 - Fifth Edition
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So, you purchased Tableau Desktop, became a pro dashboard developer, and now you want to share your work with your colleagues. Do they all need a Tableau Desktop license and installation to see your visualizations? Luckily, the answer is: NO! The best way to share Tableau dashboards is on Tableau Server. This way, your colleagues only need a Tableau Server viewing license, which is much cheaper than the developer license, and they can fully interact with the dashboard you built and uploaded to Server. A detailed description of the different roles in Tableau Server license models can be found here: https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/license_manage.htm.
But how do you upload your dashboard from Desktop to Server? Let us look at the following steps to see how we can publish a data source to Tableau Server: