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Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2

You're reading from   Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2 Effective data visualization and business intelligence with the new features of Tableau 2019.2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838553067
Length 260 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tristan Guillevin Tristan Guillevin
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Preface 1. Catching Up with Tableau 2019 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Tableau Core 3. Getting Started with Tableau Desktop 4. Connecting to Data and Simple Transformations 5. Building an Efficient Data Source 6. Design Insightful Visualizations 7. Powerful Dashboards, Stories, and Actions 8. Publishing and Interacting in Tableau Server 9. An Introduction to Calculations 10. Analytics and Parameters 11. Advanced Data Connections 12. Dealing with Security 13. How to Keep Growing Your Skills A. Other Books You May Enjoy Index
Tableau Server security

To protect your Tableau Server contents, you

can click on the three dots, ..., on any content (project, workbooks, views, and Flows) to show the options and select Permissions. When you click on Permissions, Tableau opens a new window where you can specify many security options.

Here's the Permissions menu:

On this menu, you'll always see the All Users permissions. You can click on the three dots to edit them. You can also click on Add a user or group rule to specify new permissions for specific users or groups. When you edit the permissions, you can see, for each element, a list of preconfigured roles.

If you click on the arrows next to an element (Project, Workbooks, Data Sources, and flows), you get more detail and the possibility to edit each permission individually. Each permission can be allowed (green), denied (red), or unspecified (grey). To edit an individual permission, click on its box.

Here's an example of permissions with a detailed view...

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