Interacting with Tableau Server/Online
Tableau Server/Online is an online solution for sharing, distributing, and collaborating on content created in Tableau Desktop. Its benefits include providing an environment where end users can securely view and explore data visualizations that are constantly updated from underlying data sources so that content is always fresh. The main difference between Tableau Server and Tableau Online is that Tableau Server needs to be maintained by you, while Tableau Online is fully hosted in the cloud by Tableau and backed up by Amazon Web Services infrastructure. For the ease of reading, we will further refer to both as Tableau Server.
The scope of this chapter is limited to the Tableau Desktop author's interaction with Tableau Server. Topics such as installation and upgrades, authentication and access, security configuration, and command-line utilities are not directly related to the Tableau Desktop author's interaction with Tableau Server...