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Is my data safe on Tableau Public?

We provide Tableau Public as a free service; we are not the owners or publishers of the data on our servers. We don’t screen content before it is published and we don’t make decisions about what content can exist on Tableau Public except as described in this policy. You should be mindful of the data you choose to post.

How do permissions work in Tableau?

Permissions—sets of capabilities that define who can work with what content. Tableau comes with a few pre-defined permissions roles. These are sets of capabilities for typical ways of using content. Applying a permissions role is easier to manage than granting or denying each capability manually.

What is stale content in tableau?

The Stale Content view can be used to identify content that hasn’t been used or accessed in the specified time period (displayed as Stale Access Threshold). You can set that time period in days. The minimum value for the time period is 1 day and the maximum is 120 days.

How do I give permission to a view in tableau?

Set permissions on content

1. Navigate to the content (workbook, data source, flow, data role)
2. Open the Actions menu (…) and click Permissions.
3. To modify an existing permission rule, click a capability.
4. To create a new rule, click + Add Group/User Rule and start typing to search for a group or user.

Is Tableau Public data private?

As its name implies, Tableau Public is designed to be used with public data. It’s popular among journalists, bloggers and others. Tableau cautions Tableau Public users that the data visualizations — a. “vizes” — that they save using Tableau Public (including drafts) are not private.

Can Tableau Public be private?

You can edit the setting of your public viz to make it private. See the screen shots. Using this option you can make your restrict the visibility of your public viz. then go to edit setting and clear this option from check box.

What happens when an authorized user certifies a published data source?

When you certify a data source (or database or table, if you have Tableau Catalog in your environment), users see a green badge or green check mark, depending on where the asset is being viewed. Certified data sources rank higher in search results and are added to recommended data sources.

Is permissions are explicitly denied in tableau?

Tableau Server does not support hierarchical object permissions; however, it does provide an inheritance model for users and groups. If a user does not have a permission explicitly set to Allow or Deny, the setting will be inherited from the groups the user belongs to.

How do I keep Tableau Public Private?

Before you upload any work, go to your settings. Be sure to select “Allow viz data to be downloaded” and “Set my vizzes to hidden”. This will prevent your work from being publicly visible on your profile (you can change this setting individually for each workbook later).

What are the limitations of Tableau Public?

The biggest drawback to the Public version of Tableau is that any data used in the program is ‘public’ and therefore not secure: workbooks are saved to the cloud, rather than locally.

Tableau Public limits data ingestion to 10 million rows per source.

What does it mean to certify data?

Data certification is targeted to content creators. Effectively this means they trust the content and are willing to accept a dependency on the data source when they build their own reports.

Why do we certify data?

Certify ensures district data is accurate, complete, and up to date by enabling districts to proactively detect and quickly resolve data problems.

Does Tableau Public support live data connections?

Tableau Public does not support live data connections, which is why you must create a data extract before publishing. Data extracts are saved subsets of a data source that you can use to share a snapshot of the data in the workbook, improve performance, or take advantage of Tableau functionality that is not available in the underlying data.

How do I Share my data in tableau?

This means that you share your views as well as your underlying data with anyone with access to the internet. When sharing confidential information, consider Tableau Server or Tableau Online. Select Server > Tableau Public > Save to Tableau Public. Enter your Tableau Public credentials in the dialog box.

Why was my content removed from Tableau?

Content that infringes third party copyright, trademark, or publicity rights – Tableau may remove content for which it has received a proper notice of claimed copyright infringement or a notice of trademark or publicity rights infringement.

What happens when you save a workbook to Tableau Public?

When you save a workbook to Tableau Public, the publishing process creates an extract of the data connection. Tip: The title becomes part of your view’s metadata. Use a unique title that will help others find it when they search. (The title shown in the image is a good example of how not to name your workbook.)