Tableau

Tableau is a data visualization and analytics platform that helps users explore, analyze, and share data through interactive dashboards and reports. The Tableau API ecosystem provides programmatic access to its features, allowing developers to automate tasks, integrate Tableau functionality into external applications, and extend its capabilities. Key APIs include the REST API, JavaScript API, and Extract API.

The REST API enables automation of administrative tasks such as creating users, groups, and workbooks, publishing and updating content, and managing permissions. The JavaScript API allows embedding interactive Tableau visualizations into web applications, with options for filtering, selecting data points, and responding to user interactions. The Extract API supports creating and updating Tableau data extracts programmatically, which can then be used in dashboards for analysis. These APIs collectively allow organizations to integrate Tableau with business applications, streamline reporting workflows, and embed analytics directly into customer-facing or internal tools, ensuring that data insights are accessible and actionable.

Documentation URL: https://www.tableau.com/developer/tools/rest-api

Installable Elements


Base Elements

These elements are required for the templates below to work

  • Remote Site Settings for Tableau API calls

  • Custom Metadata Type and record to securely store the Tableau Credentials

  • Tableau Login API Call template to obtain access token

Projects

API calls for Tableau projects

  • Tableau API Call to List all projects

In order to install this in your org, you need to access the library from the Declarative Webhooks app in your Salesforce org, Declarative Webhooks Library tab.