Connecting to data feeds with Tableau

Tableau allows users to work with and visualize data. Users can directly connect to and import individual data feeds using Tableau.

For more information about Tableau, see Getting Started with Tableau.

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Considerations

  • Authentication: When connecting to your digital workplace's data feeds, you must authenticate using your Igloo Authentication credentials. If you do not know what your Igloo Authentication password is, see Resetting a forgotten Igloo password.
  • Filtering: Some data feeds can be very large, so connecting to these can result in timeouts and not importing the table. To avoid this, use filters when entering your Data Feeds URL. For example, to create a table that contains only blog posts created in 2018:
    https://{your community domain}/odata/dContentBlog?$filter=year(row_active_date) eq 2018
    See Filtering Data Feeds for more information.

Who can do this?

Import a Data Feeds table into Tableau

  1. Open Tableau.
  2. Select New Data Source.
  3. In the To a Server section, select Odata.
  4. Enter the URL of the table that you are connecting to. For example, to connect to dContentBlog, the URL would look like this: https://{your community domain}/odata/dContentBlog.
  5. Select Username and Password for Authentication.
  6. For Username, enter your Igloo authentication email address.
  7. For Password, your Igloo authentication password.
  8. (Optional) Repeat this process to import additional tables.

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