Clarifying the tabcmd documentation
The Tableau Public-published workbook below is an example of using Tableau to improve upon something that's not generally considered to be analyzable data: the Tableau Server tabcmd online help documentation.
Although the online doc is reasonably comprehensive it's not readily digestible. The content's presentation space is very large and sparse — it's harder than it could be to get to the particular command you need, even harder to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the scope and details of the things tabcmd can do.
If this were a normal Tableau Friction post, or a web content design critique, I'd point out the flaws in the online content. But it's not, and I'm not.
Instead, this post celebrates Tableau's ability to take a bunch of web stuff and render it in a way that actively supports our ability to find what we need, when we need it, and to gain a richer information context.
All in all, this is a pretty handy way to get to the tabcmd command you want, to understand what it does, how it does it, and how to get it to work.
If you find this interesting or valuable, please let me know.
If you find a way to improve it, I would really like hearing about it.
Awesome! Thanks Chris!
ReplyDeleteChris, can you please let me know how I can publish a twbx file using these commands in such a way that it fetches data from a particular database
ReplyDeleteHere we do pass DB credentials but not sure which is the target DB server to which we want to connect and publish reports
Chris, can you please let me know how I can publish a twbx file using these commands in such a way that it fetches data from a particular database
ReplyDeleteHere we do pass DB credentials but not sure which is the target DB server to which we want to connect and publish reports
this is cool,....especially the export to PDF function. issue is, how can i iterate the export to PDF based on some filters that exists in my workbook?.for instance, im doing a sales report for US,UK and BR country. in my workbook, theres this filter by the name Country which holds this 3 value. how can i reiterate the export of this PDF for this 3 country? can i do some simple programming with tabcmd?
ReplyDeletethis is cool,....especially the export to PDF function. issue is, how can i iterate the export to PDF based on some filters that exists in my workbook?.for instance, im doing a sales report for US,UK and BR country. in my workbook, theres this filter by the name Country which holds this 3 value. how can i reiterate the export of this PDF for this 3 country? can i do some simple programming with tabcmd?
ReplyDeleteis there a way to point the output to a text file. I tried it and the failed scenario get displayed on the cmd prompt only. the Successful part is however on the text file.
ReplyDeleteHi krik - I'm not sure what you're asking about. The workbook I published doesn't generate any output outside of itself unless it's asked to export either the data, or a display of the presentation, e.g. a PDF file.
ReplyDeleteCan you explain what you're trying to do? (I'm guessing that you're trying to capture the output of a tabcmd execution, but am not very confident of my interpretation).