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Extensions API
How a Tableau extension reads data, declares encodings, and talks to the host.
- Dashboard extension or viz extensionTableau has two extension types with similar names, different manifests, and different APIs. Pick wrong and you rewrite the build. Choose in ninety seconds.
- Reading worksheet data in an extensionHow a Tableau extension gets its data: props for a viz extension, the summary data reader for a dashboard, nativeValue vs formattedValue, and row caps.
- Tableau Extensions API enumsEvery enum in the Tableau Extensions API with its members and string values: FilterType, MarkType, PeriodType, DateRangeType, and more.
- Tableau Extensions API methodsThe methods on Extensions, Worksheet, Settings, and UI in the Tableau Extensions API, grouped by object.
- Tableau Extensions API versions and featuresWhich Tableau Extensions API version adds which feature, and the minimum-api-version floor a viz or dashboard extension must declare.
- Viz extension encodings and Marks-card tilesA viz extension only sees the fields you declare as encodings. The four-tile cap, what each tile accepts, reserved ids, and why every icon must differ.