We’re thrilled to share a bit of exciting news: Portals for Tableau, our branded analytics platform, has been officially rebranded as Curator by InterWorks! For those unfamiliar with the platform, Curator lets you create beautiful websites and seamlessly integrate your analytics into one platform for...
While we definitely recommend using a web analytics tracker, such as Google Analytics or Matomo, to track usage of your portal, the portal itself does record each time a user visits a piece of content. It uses this information to generate things like recommended content,...
[cue music] Tiles on pages and bar charts on dashboards, Publishing files and tagging with keywords, Centralization through external links, These are a few of my favorite things… Keep Track of Your Favorite Things In the beginning, Portals for Tableau focused on, well, Tableau content. When it came to favoriting things...
When 2019.1 released, Tableau added a new capability to its industry-leading analytics platform called Ask Data. This feature allows for users to perform ad hoc analytics without learning SQL, programming or even the easy-to-learn, drag-and-drop-enabled visual analytic tool, Tableau Desktop. Ask Data leverages natural language...
There has been a recent boom in the number of people working from home, or at least away from the office. With this new development, security-minded businesses need a way to prevent an unattended computer from being hijacked by less-than-honorable individuals, not to mention a...
Do you like tools that are difficult to use? We don’t either. A big focus our team has for Portals moving forward is making them easier and easier to use. We want to avoid users having to think about where the menu is for changing...
It’s rare, but sometimes the sequels are better than the original. In parts one, two and three, the report builder just kept getting better and better. Just when you thought there was no way we could top the original, we not only did, but we...
I’m going to let you in on a little known fact: Scientists have very recently discovered that a picture is worth a thousand words. When it comes to tutorials, you can either use your thousand words to describe each part of a dashboard, or you...
For a more up-to-date walkthrough of this feature, visit the recently updated Curator blog post. Disclaimer: This is a more advanced topic than our typical 101 blogs. You will need to feel somewhat comfortable with editing HTML code to complete the activity. You don’t necessarily...
If your portal is available to the World Wide Web, we highly recommend setting up encryption for the connection between your users and the portal itself. It’s like having a really nice Italian sports car but leaving the doors unlocked in a sketchy neighborhood with...
One of the biggest selling points for Portals for Tableau is how feature-rich and flexible it is. Portals for Tableau supports numerous versions of Tableau Server, Tableau Online and Tableau Public; multiple sites within a Tableau Server; a bunch of authentication methods and SAML identity...
Everyone hates an old data source extract. Well, maybe not everyone, but data analysts sure do! If you’re an analyst or someone who manages data sources for analysts, we’ve made keeping those extracts fresh super simple from within your portal. So, prepare to say goodbye...
Here’s a not-so-secret secret fact about the portal that might blow your mind: it’s a webpage! Well, what does that even mean? It means that what you see is driven by a combination of HTML, CSS and JS. Still lost? Don’t worry; it’s our job...
The last post in this series covered how to create a “hidden” filter sheet for the portal to target for retrieving filter values, which allowed filters to be dynamic and not tack on too much load time. However, we also found that the sticky filters...
We’re continuing on with our blog series about how to fully unlock all of the filtering power available in your Portals for Tableau. The last post went over dynamically grabbing filter values from the dashboard itself to avoid having to manually input copious options. This...
Now that we have Sticky Filters set up, this post will continue our journey toward creating a fully optimized portal filter setup by enabling dynamic filter values: Setting up Dynamic Filter Values Maybe instead of filtering on Region, your use case involves filtering on State, like the...
One of the biggest selling points for Portals is the power of their filters. They’re web-friendly, fully customizable, dynamic and even sticky from dashboard to dashboard. We get a lot of questions from users who want to pull the filter options from the dashboard dynamically,...
Several of our clients utilize their portal to show dashboards to numerous clients of theirs in a multi-tenant architecture. Unlike traditional apartment buildings, these tenants shouldn’t really know the others exist. They shouldn’t hear anyone stomping around like an elephant on their ceiling in the...
While InterWorks started in the heart of the United States of America, we’ve long since become an international company. Until now, the portal has been very US-centric. With English being the de facto language of business around the world, maybe it’s not overly apparent. However,...
A Dream Within a Dream Do you ever wake up from a dream only to realize you’re still dreaming? Even though Portals for Tableau is your dream solution, you don’t have to slap yourself awake to take advantage of its new feature: token authentication. Just like Portals...
Interworks GmbH
Ratinger Straße 9
40213 Düsseldorf
Germany
Geschäftsführer: Mel Stephenson
Kontaktaufnahme: markus@interworks.eu
Telefon: +49 (0)211 5408 5301
Amtsgericht Düsseldorf HRB 79752
UstldNr: DE 313 353 072