If you want to share your data discoveries with the world outside of your organization, you can save your workbook to Tableau Public, a free cloud service. On Tableau Public, anyone can interact with your views, or download your workbooks or data sources. For information, go to the Tableau Public website.
On Tableau Public, anyone can interact with your views, or download your workbooks or data sources. For information, go to the Tableau Public website. Save a workbook. With your workbook open in Tableau Desktop, select Server Tableau Public Save to Tableau Public. Note: This option is available only if you’ve created a viz that contains. Monitoring - Tableau Engineers have implemented a solution to mitigate the issue causing extract refresh failures in the Tableau Online - United States - East - (prod-useast-b) environment. At this time, normal functionality has been restored, and we will continue to monitor the situation closely. Investigating - Tableau Engineers are investigating a potential issue within Tableau Online - United States - East - (prod-useast-b) that may be causing an impact for our users. We are working to identify the scope of impact and implement a solution as quickly as possible. We thank you for your patience; our next update will be when new information becomes available. Saving Workbooks to Tableau Public from Tableau Desktop A Rookie Guide to Tableau Public: Getting Started in the Community Resolving Problems with Your Tableau Public Account.
Tableau Public (both Desktop and Server) like their 'for a fee' counterparts offer very easy to learn and use tools to transform data into pictures and gain insights into your data. Most organizations report a reduction in development time of 10x vs. Other similar tools, due to the intuitive user interface.
Save a workbook
With your workbook open in Tableau Desktop, select Server > Tableau Public > Save to Tableau Public.
Note: This option is available only if you’ve created a viz that contains at least one field.
Sign in using your Tableau Public account.
If you don’t have an account, select the link to create a new one.
Type a name for the workbook and click Save.
When you save a workbook to Tableau Public, the publishing process creates an extract of the data connection.
Tip: The title becomes part of your view’s metadata. Use a unique title that will help others find it when they search. (The title shown in the image is a good example of how not to name your workbook.)
After the workbook is published, you are redirected to your account on the Tableau Public website(Link opens in a new window).
On your profile page on Tableau Public, do any of the following to customize your profile:
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Hover the pointer over a viz to get access to actions such as selecting it as your featured viz, or hiding, downloading, or deleting it.
Hover the pointer over a viz and then select View to open the viz’s home page. There you can select Edit Details to customize metadata such as workbook name and description, add a permalink, and change other settings.
To get a link to share on social media or code to embed in a web page, display a view, and then click Share at the bottom of the view. (You can get links and embed code for other Tableau Public users’ views this way, too.)
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