Learning AI Tools in Tableau

Chapter 6. Integrating and Extending Tableau Pulse

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In the previous chapters, you saw how Tableau Pulse works for metric authors and metric end users; now it’s time to learn about how to integrate Tableau Pulse with Slack, Salesforce customer relationship management (CRM), and custom web applications or web pages. In this chapter, you’ll also learn about developer tools, like the Tableau REST API, allowing you to programmatically create and administer metric definitions, metrics, insights, and digest subscriptions.

Warning

This chapter contains advanced developer concepts that may be outside of the scope of a data analyst’s or Tableau developer’s day-to-day role. The purpose of this chapter is to expose you to these concepts, both demonstrating and explaining the advanced features available when using Tableau Pulse. It is advisable that you partner with a developer who specializes in Salesforce, web development, and/or working with ...