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Webhooks are one way that apps can send automated messages or information to other apps.
For Tableau Server/Online, this means that events in Tableau can send automated messages and kick off actions in other apps.
Here are some cool examples of things you can do with Tableau’s Webhooks:
There are tons of possibilities. Most of the time, if you can think it, you can build it!
Here are the events in Tableau Server/Online that can trigger webhook posts.
This list is current as of September 30th, 2020
Log in to your Tableau Site and navigate to your user page. Under settings, scroll down to Personal Access Tokens. Enter a name for your token and select the Create New Token button.
You will need to copy the name and following token to a safe place for use later in the process.
Open Postman.
Open the Sign In (personal access token) json file. Paste in your site name. For my Tableau Online site, it is my assigned site name that is at the end of my Online URL.
https://10ax.online.tableau.com/#/site/CopyThisPartHere
After sending the request, save the resulting token as an environment variable for use later.
Go into your third-part service of choice (ex. IFTTT, Automate.io, or Zapier). For this post, I will be using Automate.io.
Create a new bot with a Webhook as the trigger. When you click Setup Webhook, you will be shown a url. Copy this url to your clipboard. You will use this in our next step when you setup the webhook in Postman.
Then choose the action that you want to kick off when your bot is triggered. You can choose almost anything!
Open the Create a webhook json file. You will see the following request under the Body header. There are three things you need to change to finalize the request.
Here is an example of what a completed request looks like.
That is all there is to it!
You can use the List webhooks json file to see which webhooks are set up on your site and what url they are sending packets of data to when their specific events are triggered.
If you want to learn more about Tableau’s webhooks, check out these resources.
Tableau’s Official Webhook Documentation
Webhooks Post by Andre De Vries
Webhooks Post By Anya Presvetova
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