Category: Deep Drive
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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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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