Additional options with Tableau Prep Builder

This section will discuss some smaller stand-alone but very powerful features. Some of you might have been using Prep already since the very first release. With each release and each additional user and given feedback, Tableau was able to create a priority list of features that stakeholders—like you and I—really wished to see. The upcoming topics are some of the best examples. None of these features were present in the initial release but have made the product so much better, more valuable, and more complete. You are able now to save part of your flow and reuse it, write back your data to an external database, refresh parts of your dataset, and schedule flows with the Tableau Data Management add-on. Let's take a closer look and start with the 'insert flow' in flow function.

Insert flow

An option in Tableau Prep Builder is to add an existing flow to your own flow. For example, say someone already worked...