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Use the Tableau Data Extract API to connect to data that is not currently a supported Tableau data source. With the Tableau Data Extract API, you create a program that accesses and processes your data. You then use that program to create a Tableau Data Extract (TDE) file.

Developers creating web applications can integrate fully interactive Tableau content into their applications via the new JavaScript API. The API provides a tremendous range of interactivity in the Tableau view. For example, you can use the JavaScript API to set and create filters, select and highlight elements in the view, and process the view to retrieve updated data. This enables you to provide a high level of interactivity between a Tableau visualization and the rest of the web page.

Returns true if the person currently using Tableau is a member of a group that matches the given string. If the person currently using Tableau is logged in, the group membership is determined by groups on Tableau Server. If the person is not logged in, this function returns false. Example: IF ISMEMBEROF(“Sales”) THEN “Sales” ELSE “Other” END

Tableau 8 provides an application programming interface (API) to enable developers to directly create a Tableau Data Extract (TDE) file. The API works with C/C++, Java, and Python and can be used from Windows.

Toreo Data integrates SAP Business Objects with Tableau so end users can easily access and analyze data.

With Tableau's JavaScript API you can integrate Tableau visualizations into your own web applications. The API lets you tightly control your users' interactions and combine functionality that otherwise couldn't be combined. For example, you can code a single control that filters a group of marks, selects some of those marks, and presents their data for download

Right-click in the Data window and then select Create Calculated Field. Name the field, use the following formula but replace <group name> with your user group name, and then click OK : ISMEMBEROF('[<group name>]')

SAP business objects as data source

The only way I know for sure you can connect Business Objects and Webi is using their products.

Source Plugin - uses just the version control side of TFS and allows Tableaux to checkout files from the TFS server. Build Plugin - uses the CI Build functionality of TFS. Tableaux can ask TFS to create a build from a defined Label. Tableaux can capture the build and deploy it just like any other component.

When you include external files, a copy of the data source is published. External file data sources include Excel, Access, Text, Data Extract, and image files. If you don’t include these files, others may not be able to see the worksheets online.