A sneak preview of the second Tableau Server Users Group meetup in London

Last month was the second  London Tableau server users group meetup. Jonathan MacDonald went through a long list of tips and tricks for server users and administrators, a few I knew already but also an awful lot that I didn't.

I won't go through all of them, as I wasn't writing them down, or snapping a pic for every single one. I did take the following two pics though. The first trick is that you can append filters to the URL:

and the second one is that you can access an xml containing the server status again through a URL

Workarounds for getting new 2019.3 features in earlier versions

The 2019.3 beta is out and here's the list of new features. It's nice of Tableau to automate some of the things that could be done with workarounds in previous versions. If you like the new features but are stuck in an old version, or if you are a new kid wanting to know how things were done in ye olden days, follow the links below:
Distance between two points as a calculation
Working with data in UK national grid projected coordinates (haven't tried this script in TabPy to see how slow it would be, worked fine as a standalone python script for data preprocessing)
Pdf subscriptions (courtesy of Interworks)