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# Integrating Tableau Visualizations in Custom Views

Tableau is a powerful business intelligence application that allows you to analyze many different types of structured data using a greatly expanded range of chart and graph formats to create your views.

Tableau visualizations can be incorporated into custom views that report on scenario data.

This chapter describes the tasks that a developer needs to execute in order to incorporate Tableau visualizations as views in an Xpress Insight app.

The steps involved in performing these tasks will be described in the context of adding a Tableau view to the QuickStart example that can be found when opening the default project template in Xpress Workbench or in `<installdir>\examples\basic_apps\{python,mosel}\quick_start`. If you want to follow the steps, we suggest you start from the Workbench project template.

Covered Topics

- Tutorial: Building your First Tableau View
  This tutorial demonstrates the end-to-end process for developing a view that embeds a Tableau visualization. The tutorial adds a view to the Xpress Workbench 'new project' template. The view includes a visualization of the template input array, across multiple scenarios, as a bar chart.
- Embedding Tableau Views with the vdl-tableau Component
  Xpress Insight can embed Tableau worksheets and dashboards into the custom views of an app using the vdl-tableau component.
- Authoring Tableau Workbooks
  Tableau Desktop is the recommended software for authoring Tableau workbooks for use with Xpress Insight apps. Tableau Server can also be used but has fewer authoring features.

Parent Topic Integrating Third-Party BI Visualizations in Custom Views

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