Tableau — Building a custom datasource catalogue using Webhooks and Metadata API.

As we embedded the Tableau dashboards into our propitiatory SaaS product, which got 50+ workbook and darasources for each site(270+ sites in total)in a giant Tableau server, As part of our product offering we empower our customer’s data exploration skill by allowing them to customize our standard dashboard and extending our datasources by blending different sources, technically granting author permissions.

To support authors, there is a demand to build the documentation of each datasource in respective site explaining in detail, each field description, types, calculated fields dimensions and metrics.

Thanks to Tableau Webhooks and Metadata API, which helped us to design the documentation.

• Developers, Product author develop standard dashboards using Tableau desktop locally
• Deploy it using custom deployment utility on a single click to 270+sites, which uses Tableau REST API’s effectively.
• Tableau triggers the webhooks, we subscribed for Datasource-created and Datasource-updated events.
• Catalog API take cares of processing the webhook event and use Metadata API to collect all the Datasource fields information(name, data type, description and field type) and stores it in a structured…