#Tableau APIs & Embedding13 discussing

Hi,Eleanor Hunt

It seems that embedding Tableau dashboards into Google Slides isn’t very stable at the moment. I’ve seen similar reports where the extension loads slowly or the refresh action fails quite often. I’m not aware of any official statement calling this a known issue, but the behavior does feel inconsistent in practice. 

Regarding the axis changing after embedding, this might happen because Google Slides adjusts the frame size, and Tableau then reflows the axis labels based on the available space. When the embedded view becomes smaller than the original dashboard, long date labels can wrap or shift unexpectedly. 

• Use a fixed-size dashboard in Tableau
• Increase the frame size in Google Slides if possible
• Shorten the date format (e.g., “Apr 26” instead of a long format)
• If stability is important, consider embedding the view in a regular web page instead of Google Slides — that tends to behave more reliably

The concept of embedding into Slides is great, but in its current state it may still be a bit sensitive depending on the dashboard and environment.

@Tara Morton

  Great review of details.  

I am currently testing the Tableau MCP connector with Claude and wanted to document the issue we are experiencing and confirm the best supported path forward. 

We have successfully added the official Tableau MCP connector/extension in Claude, and it works as expected in standard Claude Chat. However, when attempting to use Tableau through Claude Cowork, the Tableau tools are not available.  

In Claude Cowork, we ran ToolSearch for the following terms:

• Tableau
• tableau-mcp
• Tableau MCP
• workbooks
• datasources
• published data sources

The result was that no Tableau tools were found. Claude Cowork also explicitly stated:

“I do not have Tableau MCP tools in my allowed tools list for this Cowork session.”

Based on feedback from Anthropic support, the likely reason is that the Tableau .mcpb Desktop Extension is designed for local Claude Desktop environments and cannot run in web-based Claude Cowork.  

 Please let us know the best supported implementation path, whether this is currently available, and any documentation or examples you can share.  

Thank you in advanced.

@Benjamin Peters

Hi, in this case, I would remove the toolbar, and I would add some buttons using the Download Object to allow the download of the image, pdf: 

Something similar as this Tableau Public workbook: 

If this post resolves the question, would you be so kind to "Accept this Answer"?. This will help other users find the same answer/resolution and help community keep track of answered questions. Thank you. 

Regards, 

Diego Martinez 

Tableau Visionary and Tableau Ambassador 

@Eric Guerin

Hi, It seems you are trying to render the tableau-viz component without a src, and then you are trying to change the src. 

What if you try to give first a src, that will render the iframe child object, and all the related code, and then you change the src. 

If you are able to share your full code, we may have a better way to assist you.  

If this post resolves the question, would you be so kind to "Accept this Answer"?. This will help other users find the same answer/resolution and help community keep track of answered questions. Thank you. 

Regards, 

Diego Martinez 

Tableau Visionary and Tableau Ambassador 

Hi Caleb, try this:

query workbookFields {
  workbooks(filter: {name: "testjuly19"}) {
    name
    sheets {
      name
      sheetFieldInstances {
        name
        ... on CalculatedField {
          formula
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Use "datasourceFields" if you also want to include fields that were used in calculations but not actually on the worksheets.

-Keshia

Hi there,

here is the Tableau Embedded Playbook.

Full documentation on how you can ebbed your dashboards in a website.

Here are few samples on how the variables for embedding can be changed (based on your shared code).

Here are the parameters for embed code.

For your example you need to embed this code:

<param name='toolbar' value='yes'/>

Values might be: yes; no; top

Not sure you can display them based on user access. But, if the website js can recognize the user you can programmatically change the value to 'yes' from 'no'.

Let me know if this was helpful and mark the answer.

thanks

Adrian

Hi @Thomas Kennedy​ 

Yep possible, and opens up some pretty cool use cases.

Here are some resources:

https://www.tableau.com/blog/enable-predictive-capabilities-tableau-using-analytics-extensions

https://www.tableau.com/developer/tools/python-integration-tabpy

https://www.tableau.com/developer/tools/r-integration

Let me know if this helps!

Ta, Steve