Data sources

Data sources are Dashboard Assets native to Tableau

Home

The Home of Data sources are quite similar to the one of tables

Fields

• Name: name of the field (contains the view name)

• Description (from Tableau)

• Role & Type: Data source fields are either "dimensions" or "measures" & nature of the field (ex. string, integer, etc)

Details

At the right, the Details menu summarizes key attributes of the selected Data sources. It is visible from all tabs

• Verified: Admins can mark a Data sources as verified to indicate documentation has been reviewed

• Favorites: Users can mark Data sources as favorites

• Dashboard button: link to Data sources

• Owners: a user can be assigned as the owner of an Data sources

• Popularity: computed based on the number of views

• Description: short description of the Data sources

• Tags: tags can be used to describe Data sources. They are common for all users of a company.

• Source: always Tableau for a Data sources

Read me

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Pinned Assets

You can link Data sources to other assets

Lineage

A Data source can be related to:

• its parent tables (or even source table)

• its children workbooks

Field lineage to identigy the parent columns of Data sources fields is coming very soon!

Comments

To easily collaborate and communicate between users, each Data source has a Comments section.

History

A log of changes is kept under the History tab.