Anyone writing software knows that error handling is a must. And this isn’t any different when embedding Tableau content in third-party apps and portals. Depending on your goals the approach can get ugly! The main reasons why the embedded content may fail to load are (github issue discussion): Connected App…

If you are embedding Tableau Cloud content to your product, sending the default Tableau email invites to newly onboarded users is rather unwelcoming! But you can easily get rid of them with just 3 settings! Before we dive into how easy you can do it, we’ll be setting up a…

One of my customers serves their clients with analytics through a client portal that exposes data in the form of Tableau Embedded dashboards. Currently, this customer’s clients are charged the same and see the same data inside the dashboards. My client would like to charge more for additional value, creating…

Since the release of Tableau’s Embedding API v3, it’s become super easy and quick to embed dashboards on websites. When it comes to responsive design, my go to guidance has been for customers to use Automatic sized dashboards and always make sure there’s at least a Phone layout if they…

If you came to this page you might be struggling to generate a valid jwt with .NET in a format Tableau expects. One of my clients was sweating with this issue for over a week, so I’ve decided to share our findings. They kept getting 10084 error — JWT_PARSE_ERROR. After…

If you’re reading this post, you’ve probably been there, done that 😵 : Your beautiful Tableau Server had been running like a Ferrari for months, but sudenly this morning you’ve got loads of angry users complaining the can’t get their morning fix of KPIs. I typically deal with clients on…

Starting from Tableau Server version 2021.4, it’s possible to utilize an Oauth2-compliant External Authorization Server (EAS) to act as an SSO provider for Tableau Server embedded content. EAS leverages the OAuth 2.0 protocol to control the authorization to access a protected resource like your web app, as well as Embedded…

If you are reading this post your Tableau Custom Views seem to be behaving really weird under certain scenarios. This happens to be particularly common on Embedded Solutions that expose Custom Views on their UI. In this post I’ll explain why this issue happens and how you can mitigate it. …

I help companies build products with Tableau’s Visual Analytics widgets embedded and many of my clients operate at a global scale, so they need to serve content in multiple languages. The idea of content localization in Tableau is far from trivial as there are quite a few elements to consider: …