Tabcmd is great tool and it is the core component of your Business Intelligence solution, because it will help you with automation and integration with ETL and Data Warehouse. In this recipe, we will install Tabcmd on Windows and will learn how it can work with Tableau Server.
There are some common use case scenarios:
- Refresh Extract
- Generate Tableau Reader Book
- Generate Dashboards in PDF and upload to Shared drive or Amazon S3
- Export data from Tableau Server workbook and save in CSV or XLSX formats
You can think of Tabcmd as not only an administration tool, but also a kind of a self-service tool that may be used by end users for scheduling their dashboards, and so on.