New to Apps for Tableau?
The steps and resources below will help you become proficient in Tableau Extensions.
Request a Free Trial
It only takes 2 minutes to add new possibilities in your Tableau dashboards.
- Click on the link below and register to receive your Trial page.
- Add value by using Tableau Extensions in your dashboards.
- Publish to Tableau Cloud or Server and scale to make impact with powerful insights.
Access your Trial page
Explore one of the demo workbooks at our Demo Gallery or download the TREX file to experience the full potential of Tableau Extensions.
In your Trial page, the documentation, workbooks and TREX files are all Categorized by the individual products.
Add a Tableau Extension to your dashboard
Once you’ve got your trial, it’s time to integrate Tableau Extensions into your dashboards. Watch this short demo video on how to add Tableau Extensions to your dashboard or read this blog.
Configure your Tableau Extension
Access detailed instructions on configuring Tableau Extensions, ensuring you get the most out of their capabilities.
Publish your workbook to Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server
After perfecting your dashboard with Tableau Extensions, it’s time to share your insights with your team. By publishing your workbook to Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server, your enhanced visualizations will be accessible to your teams or clients.
All data is client side rendered, Apps for Tableau does not have access to your data.
Add Tableau Extensions to the safe list on Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server
Ensure your Tableau Extensions to work seamlessly for all users by whitelisting and setting permissions on your Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server.
On the safe list, you can control whether to grant the Extension full data access. You can also control whether users will see a prompt asking them to allow the Extension access to data. If the Extension does not require full data access, you don’t need to add it to the safe list. You might want to add an Extension to the safe list just so that you can configure whether or not users see the prompts.
A Step-to-step guide:
- Go to Settings > Extensions.
- Under Enable Specific Extensions, add the URL of the Extension. See Identifying an Extension.
- Sinds version 2024.2 you can whitelist a wildcard URL. To whitelist all Apps for Tableau cloud Extensions at once: https://extensions-appsfortableau.infotopics.com/.*
The .* means everything after the URL is whitelisted. - Choose to Allow or Deny the Extension Full Data Access. Full data access is access to the underlying data in the view, not just the summary or aggregated data. Full data access also includes information about the data sources, such as the names of the connection, fields, and tables. In most cases, if you are adding an Extension to the safe list you will also be allowing to have access to full data. All data is client side rendered, Apps for Tableau does not have access to your data.
- Choose to Show or Hide the User Prompts. Users see the prompts by default when they are adding an Extension to a dashboard, or when they are interacting with a view that has an Extension.
