4.1.1. Publish a workbook

Leave a Comment / By LearningTableau / November 27, 2024

When publishing a Tableau workbook, what are your options for showing or hiding sheets, and how do they affect the published workbook?

You can select specific sheets to show or hide during the publishing process.

Hidden sheets in the workbook will not appear in the published version.

If a sheet is used in a dashboard, it cannot be hidden during publishing.

Sheets not used in dashboards can be hidden to simplify the published workbook.

Hiding sheets in the published workbook deletes them permanently from the workbook file.

After publishing a Tableau dashboard, users report being prompted for a password to access the data. What could be the reasons for this behavior?

The data source connection uses a live connection and the credentials are not embedded in the workbook.

The data source connection uses an extract and the credentials are not embedded in the workbook.

The users were not given View access to the dashboard.

The users were not given Explore access to the dashboard.

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What are the available options to enable extract refreshes when publishing a workbook to Tableau Server

Embed database credentials in the workbook during publishing.

Switch to live connection

Use Tableau Bridge to enable a connection to the database

Select "prompt user" so that user is prompted for their credentials to enable the refresh

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Which of the following explains how hiding sheets when publishing to Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud impacts security?

Hidden sheets can still be accessed by anyone with access to the workbook.

Hiding sheets removes access for users with View permissions.

Tableau does not apply user authentication to hidden sheets.

Hidden sheets are not published, so they do not pose a security risk.

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