Scheduling Tableau Prep flows from Tableau Prep Conductor

We looked at Tableau Prep Builder in Chapter 4, Chapter 5, and Chapter 6. When we use the Tableau Prep Builder client software, we can save our flows to our filesystem as Tableau Prep flows (the.tfl file extension) or Tableau Prep packaged files (the.tflx file extension). Tableau Prep flow files contain information on data server connections and the instructions we create in the flow. Tableau Prep packaged flow files contain the same information, plus the data from any file-based sources that have been embedded. In addition to saving flow files locally, Tableau Prep flows can be published to Tableau Server or Cloud.

When we use the Tableau Prep Builder web client, we only have the option to publish our flows to Tableau Server or Cloud. From both the installed client and web client, we can run our flows manually. When we run flows, Tableau performs all the data transformation steps we created and runs any outputs in the flow...