This extension demonstrates how to add write-back capabilities to a dashboard. We use a fictional marketing team's tasks and a corresponding dashboard. To simplify our set-up, we are using an Excel spreadsheet for our datasource.
Our dashboard comes from a blog post by Tableau's marketing team.
- You must have Node.js installed. You can get Node.js from http://nodejs.org.
- Copy
ProjectManagement.trex
to~\Documents\My Tableau Repository (Beta)\Extensions
so it will be available in Tableau. - Open a command prompt window to the location where you cloned this repo.
- Make sure you're in the
.\extensions-api-projectmanagement
directory. - Start a simple file hosting server:
- Node.js : First run
npm install
(only the first time) thennpm start
.
- Node.js : First run
- Launch Tableau.
- Open
Tasks.twb
and then add the extension to the dashboard.