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: …

TLDR: Salesforce Mobile Publisher for iOS won’t be able to run Tableau Visualizations embedded due to an iOS bug blocking third-party authentication cookies. This post has a solution for Tableau Server. Since Apple’s introduction of Intelligent Tracking Protection, developers of iOS apps have struggled to integrate third-party components to their…

Contrary to popular belief, stating from Oct 2020 it is possible to achieve seamless SSO iframe embedding with Azure AD B2C and OpenID Connect. This step-by-step tutorial will help you achieve the following: Configure Azure AD B2C as an Identity Provider (IdP) for Tableau, by leveraging OIDC auth protocol. (Note…

This is a quick post with the step-by-step I used with a client to quickly create a persistent Tableau Server container image for testing purposes. The whole process takes roughly 30 minutes. This post is not meant to teach you how to create this at scale and in a “production-capacity”…

TL;DR; It is possible to use Tableau’s native connectors to decrypt data coming from SQL Server Always Encrypted (with and without Security Enclaves) with a few caveats. This post provides options and how-tos. Thanks to GDPR and a general surge in sophisticated cyber attacks, data encryption is becoming a staple…

Back in 2018, Tableau released a much wanted feature to allow dataviz artists build dashboards with transparent backgrounds. The #datafam community quickly embraced this feature and started sharing some wicked vizzes. …