Publishing a data source to Tableau Server

So, you purchased Tableau Desktop, became a pro dashboard developer, and now you want to share your work with your colleagues. Do they all need a Tableau Desktop license and installation to see your visualizations? Luckily, the answer is: NO! The best way to share Tableau dashboards is on Tableau Server. This way, your colleagues only need a Tableau Server viewing license, which is much cheaper than the developer license, and they can fully interact with the dashboard you built and uploaded to Server. A detailed description of the different roles in Tableau Server license models can be found here: https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/license_manage.htm.

This chapter assumes the reader has access to Tableau Server with sufficient privileges to publish data sources and edit in the web authoring environment. If you do not have access to Tableau Server but would like to work through the exercises in this chapter, consider...