Category: DataDev
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Unified Access Tokens for Tableau Cloud
What Are Unified Access Tokens for Tableau Cloud? There’s a new player in town in the world of Tableau Cloud API Authentication (which I’ve written about in-depth before here)! Unified Access Tokens (UATs) for Tableau represent a welcome step forward for enterprise customers, providing the ability to bring your crypto keys and rotate/revoke as needed.
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Recycle Bin for Tableau: Soft Deletes, Big Implications
The Recycle Bin for Tableau is an overdue feature with some notable caveats… What is the Recycle Bin on Tableau Cloud/Server? Introduced in version 2025.1, the Recycle Bin in Tableau brings familiar functionality from many applications and operating systems – when you delete something like a Workbook, Datasource or Project, it moves into a ‘holding
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VizQL Data Service for Tableau – A Deep Dive
Introducing VizQL Data Service (again) You might be thinking, “Hey Kyle, didn’t you already write a post about VDS?!” – and you’re correct! When I first wrote about this topic last August, the API was still in beta and was slowly being rolled out only to portions of Tableau Cloud. As of the time of
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VizQL Data Service from Tableau
This blog was written as a guest post for Tableau.com Introducing the VizQL Data Service The VizQL Data Service was first demoed at Tableau Conference 2023 and allows users to make programmatic (API) requests for data from published data sources in Tableau. And boy oh boy, did it catch my eye right away! The ability to
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Tableau API Authentication: A Deep Dive
If you’ve ever pondered how to get started using Tableau + APIs, this post will cover the all important first step — authentication. You’ve got options, and they’re actually more approachable than you might think! Important Note: The information in this post is current as of December 23rd, 2025. I will update with significant changes