topic Re: Can I publish to tableau? in Alteryx Designer Cloud Discussions

Can I publish to tableau?

4a449ebf5e0b5283b640 — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 01:13:00 GMT

My company uses Tableau for visualization, and I want to produce an automatically-updating dashboard based on my output from Trifacta. It looks like I can only produce a CSV. Is there a way to publish directly into my company's Tableau Server and make the data update every month?

Re: Can I publish to tableau?

ccarreras — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 23:04:59 GMT

Yes! I actually just set this up on my instance of Trifacta. You will need to create a new connection that points to your Tableau server (of course, you should check with your IT department to make sure that your Trifacta server can communicate with your Tableau server, otherwise nothing will work 😞 ).

Here's what I did to make the connection:

Open the connections page by clicking on the user icon in the top right of Trifacta, and then selecting "Connections"
Click the "Create Connection" button
Click the "Tableau Server" box
Enter your Tableau server connection details (again, I had to go to IT for this)
Click "Save"

Now, whenever I run a job in Trifacta and create a "TDE" output, I can make that output go into my Tableau server! It's saved me so much manual effort it's crazy.

Re: Can I publish to tableau?

4a449ebf5e0b5283b640 — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 00:20:59 GMT

LOL. You're right--I did need to ask my admin to open the port between Trifacta and Tableau. But once she did that for me, your instructions worked perfectly.

Re: Can I publish to tableau?

ChristianG — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:42:43 GMT

@Connor Carreras? Is this still true? I know this post was from 4 years ago however I am having the same problem and don't have a solution