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Mastering Tableau

You're reading from   Mastering Tableau Smart Business Intelligence techniques to get maximum insights from your data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397692
Length 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jen Stirrup Jen Stirrup
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David Baldwin David Baldwin
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Up to Speed – a Review of the Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. All about Data – Getting Your Data Ready 3. All about Data – Joins, Blends, and Data Structures 4. All about Data – Data Densification, Cubes, and Big Data 5. Table Calculations 6. Level of Detail Calculations 7. Beyond the Basic Chart Types 8. Mapping 9. Tableau for Presentations 10. Visualization Best Practices and Dashboard Design 11. Improving Performance 12. Interacting with Tableau Server 13. R Integration

Tableau Server revision history

In Tableau 9.3, revision history was introduced for workbooks, including .twb and .twbx files. In Tableau 10.0 revision history was extended to data sources, including .tds and .tdsx files. By default Tableau Server's revision history is set to 25. In other words, the past 25 versions of each workbook and data source are retrievable. Previous to Tableau 9.3, revision history was only available through third party tools such as InterWorks' Tableau Enterprise Deployment Tool.

In Tableau Desktop, if you attempt to upload a workbook or data source with the same name as a previously uploaded file, Tableau Desktop will display a warning such as Data source is already in use. Publishing will overwrite the existing data source. If you proceed with the upload, revision control will be activated and the previous version of the file will remain accessible as a revision.

To access revision history for individual workbooks and data sources in Tableau Server, simply...

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