Strengths
- Investigate why a number changed
- You can pin the model version 2 of 3 models
- Trace where a number came from
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Version 1 · Last updated Oct 30, 2026 · Documentation as of Oct 26, 2026
Shown for Gemini 3.8 Flash, the median scorer. The score is that model’s total. The results below combine all three models, so they can add up to a slightly different number.
Analysis
Building and maintaining assets
Context and connections
Reliability and controls
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Quoted from Tableau’s docsTableau Agent is a generative AI feature that helps you explore your data, create visualizations, and uncover insights with the help of a conversational assistant.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsWhen you type a question or request into the conversation pane, a combined prompt consisting of the user's input, metadata describing the current state of the viz (web authoring), or Tableau Prep flow, and historical context from the conversation pane flow through the Einstein Trust Layer to the LLM.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsDashboard Q&A shows all of the reasoning steps that Tableau Agent took to find its answer, as well as a summary of the data it used, so you can be confident that the response is accurate.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsClick Metric Sources to see metrics considered as part of the analysis when the response is generated.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsHowever, you can also use Tableau Agent with live database connections, and uploaded files with the following file types:
Quoted from Tableau’s docsTableau Agent performs the steps for you, building out your flow and adding the changes to the Changes pane.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsTableau Agent only works with the primary data source in a data blend.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsChoose the best chart type for an analysis: "Show me the distribution of student's grades"
Quoted from Tableau’s docsShows values for dimension members that changed the most in the same direction as the observed change in the metric.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsShows the expected values for a metric for the remainder of the period, along with a forecast confidence range.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsWhether it’s a calculation that Tableau Agent created for you or one that exists as part of your data set, you can ask Tableau Agent to explain the calculation.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsManually make your changes in the Calculation Editor and click OK or describe the changes you want to make in the Tableau Agent conversation pane, and let Tableau Agent make the changes for you.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsFor example, suppose you want to use a query variable to find the Sample_Superstore workbook.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsPublishes a workbook on the specified site.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsStart by creating a new workbook or opening an existing one.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsAfter Tableau Agent creates the viz, you can interact and modify it, just like if an analyst built and shared a viz with you.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsThe Metadata API surfaces the content and assets that comprise your Tableau Cloud site or Tableau Server, the content and asset roles, and how the content and assets relate to each other.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsPublishes a workbook on the specified site.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsSearch can retrieve all the content that is available on your Site and in your Personal Space, but it will only show the content that you have access to view.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsYou can create permission sets or profiles to control which users can access your new Analytics and Visualization agent.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsThis insight summary appears at the top of digests and in the Tableau Pulse home page.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsInspector: Proactive Alerts: Includes the Data Alert Management subagent
Quoted from Tableau’s docsFor example, if you have high cardinality fields, fields with a lot of values, Tableau Agent might ask you to select the values you want.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsThe subagents you’ve added are assigned to your agent and visible on the Subagents panel in Agentforce Builder.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsQ&A Calibration (Beta): You can access this tool in the Tableau Next menu to test questions in Concierge, and then verify and calibrate results.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsEnsure the model version assigned to the deployment is supported by Tableau Server.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsIt stores the prompt and response for every LLM API call along with other audit data for a maximum of 30 days in your Salesforce Data 360 instance.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsFeedback further personalizes insights. Users can provide thumbs-up or thumbs-down feedback on the insights they see to indicate whether the insights are useful. The Insights platform learns from this to further personalize the types of insights it shows to a user.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsGround answers in trusted content. Agents use trusted business definitions and calculations from semantic models, metadata, relationships, and business preferences in the knowledge graph, rather than relying only on raw data.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsTo support usage tracking and auditing, Tableau sends the requesting user's identity to your gateway as custom HTTP headers on every /chat/completions and /embeddings request so you can measure usage and active-user population directly from what the gateway receives, without relying on Tableau Server logs.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsIt stores the prompt and response for every LLM API call along with other audit data for a maximum of 30 days in your Salesforce Data 360 instance.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsYou can turn on AI in Tableau features for either a single user group or for all users on your site.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsAs soon as you start making changes to a new or existing workbook, we'll start to autosave the changes to a private draft version of your workbook.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsUnlike Tableau Cloud, in Tableau Server AI in Tableau connects directly from your Tableau Server deployment to the selected LLM provider or via a custom gateway (version 2026.3 and later).
Quoted from Tableau’s docsThe data a user has access to while using Tableau Agent conforms to any row or column-level security policies that you have in place.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsDue to our zero data retention policies in place with our third-party LLM providers, any data sent to the LLM isn’t retained and is deleted after a response is sent back.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsIf a model isn’t available in your Data Cloud region, or if there isn't enough available capacity, then the requests are routed to the US region.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsAs you interact with Tableau Agent, neither your data nor your conversations that are sent to the Large Language Model (LLM) are saved to the LLM, and no customer data is ever used to train the model.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsAI Access lets a user use Tableau Agent in Dashboards, including Dashboard Overview, Dashboard Insights, and Dashboard Q&A.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsTo ensure minimum access to administrative tasks and content, the JWT should contain access scopes that determine which methods are accessible to the connected app or UAT.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsFor example, you can use upstreamTablesConnection to query the tables used by a data source, use downstreamSheetsConnection to query sheets used by a workbook, or upstreamLinkedFlows and downstreamLinkedFlows to query flows that are directly upstream or downstream of one another.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsPublishes a work copy as a data source.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsIt may be possible to identify what changed to break a custom view by comparing a .twb from before and after the change.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsYou can revert to a previous version at any time.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsConnecting your knowledge graph to the Tableau MCP server enables Tableau Agent and other agents to query your knowledge graph.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsReturns the workbooks on a site.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsTo get a credentials token, you call Sign In and pass credentials of a valid user, either a Personal Access Token (PAT), a user name and password, along with the content URL (subpath) of the site you are signing in to.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsTableau provides the tabcmd command-line utility which you can use to automate site administration tasks on your Tableau Cloud site.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsReplaces the current list of Tableau MCP settings for a given site.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsGets the list of Tableau MCP settings for a specified site.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsBusiness preferences are natural-language instructions that explain organization-specific logic, terminology, and how your organization uses data.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsFile formats: Supported file types are text files (.txt) and Markdown files (.md).
Quoted from Tableau’s docsBusiness preferences apply globally across the entire knowledge graph.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsYou can access this tool in the Tableau Next menu to test questions in Concierge, and then verify and calibrate results.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsThe information it indexes includes field metadata such as field captions, field descriptions from comments(first 150 characters) in Tableau Desktop or from Tableau Catalog, data roles, and data types.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsHide fields you don’t need and Tableau Agent won’t use these hidden fields.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsTableau Creators build and maintain knowledge graphs.
Quoted from Tableau’s docsdbt Semantic Layer
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