TABLEAU

DEVELOPER PROGRAM

What?

"Introducing the Tableau Developer Programme, which helps make it easy to customise, integrate and extend the Tableau platform to fit the needs of your organisation."

1. Keep up to date: Get news updates and participate in product sprint demos.

2. Personal development sandbox on Tableau Online.

3. Connect with others in the Tableau Developer Community Forum.

Resources:

https://www.tableau.com/en-gb/developer

What's new in 2019.3 & 2019.4?

2019.3

Data Catalog

2019.3

Metadata API - GraphQL

2019.3

HYPER API!!

Hyper API

Hyper API allows developers and admins to create .hyper files and insert, delete, update, and read data from those files.

Full CRUD: Read, update, delete, and insert data in .hyper files.
Full speed: Leverage the full speed of Hyper for creating .hyper files.
Direct CSV loading: Directly load from .CSV files instead of writing code to do so.
SQL-based API: Unleash the power of SQL to interact with .hyper files.
Multi-table: Create multi-table extracts that match your data model.

Personal Access Tokens

Traditionally for REST API access you use username and password. Now you can have your own generated token

The other advantages of the upcoming Tableau Personal Access Token are:

Better security: Reduces the risks of your credentials been exposed.
Better tracking: Admins can track when a token is used and for what purpose.
Better governance: At any moment, you can revoke the access to this token.
Better management and handling: A token can be created for each script or application. If the password or the email address is changed, that won’t impact the usage of the API token.

2019.4

Webhooks!

2019.4

Extensions Security Improvements

'Sandbox' - extensions