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Use HTML and JavaScript to connect to any web data source and use it in Tableau.

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With the Web Data Connector SDK, you can unlock a world of data that's available over the web. In addition to using the dozens of data connectors that are already available in Tableau, you can now create your own web data connector (WDC) that reads data from virtually any site that publishes data in JSON, XML, or HTML.

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Lisa Francolini mentioned Web Data Connector 2 hours ago Show mention context Hide mention context

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Lisa Francolini mentioned Web Data Connector 2 hours ago

I am so new to tableau, it isn't funny...but I need to get data through an API - REST JSON (from an application we use) into tableau? I have read some of the information on Web Data Connector andPreview Hide preview

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Max Vargas in Web Data Connector5 days ago (Show more Show less)

Has anyone found a free LinkedIn web data connector?

I haven't found anything other than blockspring, which is not free.

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Ciara Brennan

(to Max Vargas) 3 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Max Yea I'm aware of blockspring via this post by Mark Fraser LinkedIn connector Another option might be to check out the free trial by fivetran...?

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Jyothirmai T in Web Data Connector3 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

WDC works on simulator but keeps on loading data in Tableau Desktop ver 2018.1

Hello, I made a Web Data Connector with Basic Auth, it works perfectly when I run through simulator from a web security disabled browser (to avoid CORS issue) but when I load it through tableau… (Show more Show less)

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Jyothirmai T (to Patrick A Van Der Hyde) 3 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Patrick, I got the solution to this one, It's a Proxy server problem. The CORS proxy given in WDC documentation page of Tableau did not work for me I had to use another one corsproxy-https…

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Karthick Jeyakumar in Web Data Connector3 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

Web Data Connector with JSON

Hi All, I am developing WDC. It will speak to REST endpoints and the response I have to publish to tableau datasource. Rest endpoint will connect to cassandra based on date-time, and returns… (Show more Show less)

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Patrick A Van Der Hyde

(to Karthick Jeyakumar) 3 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hello Karthick, Did you figure out a solution to amending data for your WDC extracted files? Patrick

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Jackie Gleason in Web Data Connector4 days ago (Show more Show less)

Tableau Connection Data working in Simulator but not in Tableau Desktop

I have a Web Connector that uses connection data to store information about configuration options like this example. This works great when I try it out in the Simulator, I see the data based on the… (Show more Show less)

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Jackie Gleason (to Jackie Gleason) 4 days ago (Show more Show less)

Here is a jsfiddle that is really close to my version Edit fiddle - JSFiddle

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Amanda May in Web Data Connector1 month ago (Show more Show less)

Tableau and Workday data

Has anyone been able to connect Tableau to Workday? I am not familiar with creating WDCs, so any help would be very appreciated! Has anyone had luck with this? Thanks!

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edlira.stefani.0 (to Brandon Kidwell) 4 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Brandon, Do you use SSIS to bring data from Workday to SQL Database first and then connect Tableau to SQL or do you connect Tableau directly to Workday? Thank you!

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Jackie Gleason in Web Data Connector4 days ago (Show more Show less)

What is the HTML portion of the Web connector for if we can get the data selected

I have the following for a simple Web Data Connector... <select id="team" onchange="window.changeTeam();"></select> <button type="button" id="submitButton" class="btn btn-success" style="margin:… (Show more Show less)

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Jackie Gleason (to Jackie Gleason) 4 days ago (Show more Show less)

I missed the tableau connectionData here. It seems to do what I am trying to do.

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Jonathan Yi in Web Data Connector7 days ago (Show more Show less)

Looping GET requests in getData function for Web Data Connector

Hello, I'm having difficulty with the getData() function while trying to use a Tableau Web Data Connector. Essentially, I'm trying to send a call to GET a list of db ids, then loop the response… (Show more Show less)

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Chi Nguyen in Web Data Connector3 years ago (Show more Show less)

Best approach to dynamically connect Rally to Tableau?

What are approaches to dynamically connect between Rally & Tableau? With today's LC at a break neck pace, I cant Imagine showing Tableau dashboards with dated data. I have tried to use WDC but… (Show more Show less)

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Sheetal Babu (to Harsh Agarwal) 2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Harsh Agarwal, My team loves to use this WDC and visualize the rally data. The management are also interested to see Defect data. Please can you let me if there is a way to pull it. At…

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