Understanding the Tableau Prep Builder Interface

You'll find a lot of similarities in the interfaces of Tableau Prep Builder and Tableau Desktop. The home screen of Tableau Prep Builder will look similar to this:

The following components have been numbered in the preceding screenshot:

1. The menu includes options for opening files, editing and running flows, signing into Tableau Server, and various Help functions.
2. The two large buttons at the top give you the option to Open a Flow to open an existing work or Connect to Data to start a new flow with an initial data connection. We'll define a flow in the next section. For now, think of a flow in terms of Tableau Prep's equivalent of a Tableau Desktop workbook.
3. Recent Flows shows the Tableau Prep data flows that you have recently saved. You may click on one of these to open the flow and edit or run it. A toggle button...