1 Reply Latest reply on Jun 29, 2017 6:09 AM by lenaic.ridinger

Rest API authentication and embedding View - iOS

Benjamin Schröder Jun 20, 2017 3:20 AM

Hi Guys,

I am currently trying to develop an ios app as part of my bachelor thesis. Until now, the authentication with the rest API works very well and I get an oAuthToken back. I can also display all projects, workgroups and views (residual API queries).
Unfortunately I now stand before the problem one of the listed views in a WebView display and that does not work, because I do not know what a link to the view I must use and how the authentification works in the browser.
Currently I am always in my WebView forwarded to the Tableau Server login page and should log me in manually, although I'm logged in by Rest API. How can I avoid that ?
I've read something about cookies, workgroup_session_id, and XSRF-TOKEN and I've tried the "mobile-connected-client" from github. But I don't understand that Tool.
Can someone give me a solution or explain a bit about the funtionality ?

Many Thanks.

Best regards

Benjamin

1. Re: Rest API authentication and embedding View - iOS

lenaic.ridinger Jun 29, 2017 6:09 AM (in response to Benjamin Schröder)
Hey Benjamin Schröder,

Although the REST API might help with creating an embedded Dashboard there is nothing specific in the REST API to achieve this. You should look at the documentation for Trusted Authentication and/or the Javascript API:
Tableau JavaScript API
Trusted Authentication
The Trusted authentication has examples of embedding because that is the common use case for embedding vizualizations. Once you take a closer look at this documentation you might see how to answer you question about comments also.

(Source: Embedding Tableau Dashboard using REST API )

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