Tableau
9 min
similar to power bi, the fusion signage tableau integration allows you to display tableau dashboards and projects seamlessly on your digital signage screens this enables real time sharing of data, insights, and dashboards with employees, customers, or stakeholders directly through your displays with this integration, you can show live tableau projects on your screens present real time data for current insights schedule and tag projects for targeted display times manage your projects like any other media item – simply add them to playlists and deploy pre requisites fusion signage pro licence application version minimums android 2 6 2 tizen 2 4 1 webos 2 3 5 brightsign 2 4 0 windows 2 4 0 please note publishing a report if your app version is below these will ignore the project, as it cannot render properly important setup notes only one connection between fusion signage and tableau is possible only reports accessible to the user who established the connection will be available within fusion signage once connected, all users in your fusion signage account will have access to these reports how to set up step 1 create a connected app in tableau log into your tableau account go to settings → connected apps → new connected app select direct trust name the app (e g 'fusion signage') set access level all projects = access to all workbooks and dashboards specific project = choose one from the dropdown multiple projects = select several dashboards choose domain access all domains = unrestricted embedded content specific domains = limit access – see tableau documentation for formatting details click create click generate new secret and note down the following secret id secret value client id return to the connected apps page, click the three dots next to your app, and select enable step 2 connect fusion signage to tableau log into your fusion signage account navigate to settings → integrations → tableau click configure integration fill in the create tableau settings login email – your tableau login email site id – extracted from your tableau url (e g , after /t/ ), for example url https //xxx xxxxxxxxxxx x xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxx/x/xxx/fusionsignage/xxxx site id fusionsignage client id – from step 8 secret id – from step 8 secret value – from step 8 base url – we also find this on your tableau url, for example url https //prod apsoutheast a online tableau com/x/xxxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxx base url https //prod apsoutheast a online tableau com/ click submit step 3 add tableau projects to fusion signage return to the manage page select or create a folder for your projects (organisational use) click add → tableau choose your tableau report from the dropdown list select the specific page from the report you'd like to display add additional pages as needed for different views the project now appears in your folder deploy and display create a new playlist or open an existing one click add → media and select your tableau project(s) use tagging and scheduling rules to target each screen or region click publish to send the report to your display screens filtering your projects you can customise the data displayed on each screen by applying filters, ensuring only relevant information appears for each location or region navigate to the deploy page select the screen name from your list of devices click configure screen in the tableau filters section, click add and select the data parameters needed for that specific screen add multiple filters as necessary to narrow down data to the relevant region or category click save to apply these filters to the selected screen