Explore Tableau Next in the Slack Side Pane

When a Tableau Next metric, dashboard, or viz is shared in Slack, users can click the preview to open a side pane in Slack that shows details and live insights.

Required Editions

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User Permissions Needed
To share metrics in Slack: Tableau Unmetered Consumer or Tableau Next Consumer or Tableau Unmetered Self-Service Consumer or Tableau Next Self-Service Consumer permission set

Ask your Slack and Salesforce admins to Enable Slack for Tableau Next.

  1. From Slack, click the preview of a Tableau Next metric, dashboard, or viz to open the side pane.
  2. In the right pane, see insights about the data.
  3. Click Refresh to see the latest data within Slack.
  4. Click Explore in Tableau Next to open the metric, dashboard, or viz in the Tableau Next app in Salesforce.