#Tableau prep install#

You can also open Tableau Desktop directly from within Tableau Prep Builder to preview your data.įor information about installing Tableau Prep Builder, see Install Tableau Desktop or Tableau Prep Builder (Link opens in a new window) in the Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep Deployment Guide. At any point in your flow, you can create an extract of your data, publish your data source to Tableau Server or Tableau Online, publish your flow to Tableau Server or Tableau Online to continue editing on the web or refresh your data using a schedule. Tableau Prep works seamlessly with other Tableau products. When you are finished with your flow, run it to apply the operations to the entire data set. Tableau Prep tracks each operation so that you can check your work and make changes at any point in the flow. Drag and drop or double-click to bring your tables into the flow pane, and then add flow steps where you can then use familiar operations such as filter, split, rename, pivot, join, union and more to clean and shape your data.Įach step in the process is represented visually in a flow chart that you create and control. Connect to and combine data from multiple data sources. Start by connecting to your data from a variety of files, servers, or Tableau extracts. Starting in version 2020.4, as a Creator, you can also create and edit flows on Tableau Server (Link opens in a new window) and Tableau Online (Link opens in a new window). Note: Tableau Prep version 2019.1.2 had changed its name to Tableau Prep Builder and refers to the Desktop application. Use Tableau Prep Builder to combine, shape, and clean your data for analysis in Tableau. Tableau Prep Builder is a tool in the Tableau product suite designed to make preparing your data easy and intuitive.

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