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Learning Tableau 2025 - Sixth Edition
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Tableau has two main types of extensions that leverage the Tableau Extensions API: Viz Extensions and dashboard extensions. Both allow developers to add additional capabilities to Tableau. You’ve already had some exposure to Viz Extensions. In this chapter, we’ll focus primarily on using and even developing dashboard extensions. But note that Viz Extensions leverage the same development framework.
In Chapter 8, Telling a Data Story with Dashboards, we noted that the Dashboard Extension object was one of many objects that can be added to a dashboard. Now, we’ll consider the details of what an extension is, how to use extensions, and even how to create a dashboard extension.
A Tableau dashboard extension, also known simply as a dashboard extension, is a web application that integrates into a dashboard, providing extended capabilities beyond the built-in features of Tableau. Extensions can perform many...