Workbooks
A
workbook is essentially a collection of
SQL query results against one (or more) data sources.
Apparently, these query results are referred to as views?
Misc
TSM
TSM is the Tableau Services Manager. It configures the Tableau Server.
The port number to connect to TSM administrator console is 8850 (https://localhost:8850/).
Gateway Port: by default, the Tableau Server listens for requests on port 80 (which can be changed when configuring the server).
Site
A site is a collection of users, groups and content (which in turn consists of workbooks and data sources).
The idea behind a site is that a team can share data sources and workbooks with each other.
Command line tools
tabadmin to administer Tableau Server configuration settings.
Apparently, tabadmin is now replaced with tsm.
tabcmd to automate comman tasks such as publishing workbooks in batches and administering uesrs and groups.
Commands
Show existing users (in postgress DB):
$ tsm data-access repository-access list User Access Tableau true
$ tsm configuration get -k pgsql.adminpassword
$ tsm data-access repository-access enable --repository-username Tableau --repository-password