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Maximizing Tableau Server

Maximizing Tableau Server

By : Sarsfield, Locker
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Maximizing Tableau Server

Maximizing Tableau Server

5 (18)
By: Sarsfield, 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

Leveraging naming conventions

It seems like nobody thinks much about good naming conventions until after it's an issue. We've all looked for content or a file that we knew was located on Tableau Server or a shared drive but were unable to find it, at least not without a lot of work and some serious self-doubt. In fact, you were probably looking right at what you wanted and failed to recognize it because the name it was given meant absolutely nothing to you. However, if the name had been clear and easy to understand, it would have popped right out to you as your eyes hovered over it.

This is because names are most helpful when they make sense to as many users as possible. A well-thought-out naming convention helps reduce the effort required for your users to read, understand, and find content. A name should help frame your work in a way that describes it and connects it to other related content. To maximize the end user experience on Tableau Server, we recommend taking...

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