Tableau

Both Tableau Online or Tableau Server (2019.3 or later) are supported.

Tableau Online

Authentication

Generate a Personal Access Token with a user who is either "Site Admin Explorer" or "Site Admin Creator".

1. Open “My Account Settings“

2. Go to the section “Personal Access Tokens”

3. Create new token

4. Copy token secret to clipboard and save it. This token is valid for 1 year and will need to be refreshed.

Tableau Server

For connecting from the Cloud with Tableau server, please coordinate with our customer success team [e-mail]. A typical network setup uses OpenVPN.

Make sure the meta data API is enabled.

https://help.tableau.com/current/api/metadata_api/en-us/docs/meta_api_start.html#enable-the-tableau-metadata-api-for-tableau-server

Connect in Dot

Enter your details, hit connect and watch it sync. As soon as it's done, you can head over to Model /External assets to further curate what Dot should know about.