Tableau How-to-Guides are organized by user. The first section of guides may be useful to all Tableau users, then Developers, Site Administrators and finally Tableau Command users.

  These guides are specific to the Tableau Enterprise Server at the University of Colorado. To access these how-to guides, you need to be logged in to your campus-specific VPN and will need CU System SharePoint access. If you encounter an issue accessing these documents, contact the UIS Service Desk.

Tableau General User Guides

The General User Guides provide basic instructions to begin using Tableau. You will find out how to locate your unique identification code, subscribe to a specific dashboard, and refresh data points automatically on a dashboard.

How to find your own CID

How to subscribe to a specific dashboard

How to set up extract refresh

Tableau Developers Guides

The Developers Guide has insights on how to connect Tableau Desktop to the UIS in-house data warehouse (CIW), restrict data access in a Tableau Server dashboard, edit datasource connection in a published dashboard, resolve data sourcing errors, and set up row-level security for a dashboard.

How to connect Tableau Desktop to the CIW

How to restrict data access

How to Edit the Datasource Connection to view a Dashboard when prompting for Username and Password

How to resolve intermittent data source errors

How to update row-level security calculations

Tableau Site Administrators Guides

Site Administrator Guides show site admins how to add existing users (all staff, faculty, and students) to Tableau Server groups, and assign site roles to users.

How to add users to groups

How to add users within the Tableau Enterprise Server

How to assign site roles to users

TABCMD Specific Guides

TABCMD* Specific Guides show you how to use command line for the following actions: download and install, bulk-add users to a group, and update password to use with TABCMD.

*TABCMD is a command-line utility provided by Tableau. It allows you to automate administrative tasks on a Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud. Using TABCMD, you can publish workbooks, create users, generate PDF exports of dashboards, and more without needing to use the graphical interface. (ideally this is made smaller and added like a footnote)

How to download and install the TABCMD tool

How to add users in bulk to a group in TABCMD

How to update TABCMD