// Tableau data apps

Web apps that run inside Tableau, on your data.

A data app lives in the workbook and draws whatever it likes from the worksheet it sits on. Put the answer where people already look: how fresh the numbers are, which refreshes are behind, what your site is doing.

Packaged in the workbook

The app ships inside the .twbx. Nothing to host, no server to keep up, no URL to allow-list, and no permission prompt for viewers.

Draws from the sheet's data

It reads the rows of the worksheet it sits on, so it follows the same data source, the same filters and the same permissions as the rest of the dashboard.

Anything a web page can do

Charts Tableau can't draw, live status strips, games, sound, 3D. If it runs in a browser, it can run on a Tableau dashboard.

// For Tableau admins

Tell every viewer whether to trust the dashboard.

Built on the refresh and usage data your site already keeps. Each one opens here in your browser on a bundled copy of its data.

Freshness Badge is free. One download works on any Tableau Cloud site with Admin Insights, with a setup guide.

Get Freshness Badge

// Build your own

Three steps from an idea to a dashboard.

  1. 01

    Turn on Packages

    In Tableau Cloud, Settings > Packages, check “Allow Packages on this Site” and save. Every data app on the site is listed on that same page.

  2. 02

    Connect Claude to Tableau

    Add the Tableau plugin in Claude and connect Tableau Cloud. Its data app skill scaffolds the package for you. You need a role that can publish.

  3. 03

    Describe it, then review it

    Say what the app should show. Claude writes it, packages it and publishes it. Open it on Cloud, check what it reads, and iterate.

The full build, step by step

We get you ready

Your first data apps, built with your team, not handed over.

Plan your rollout
  • Setup

    Your site configured for data apps, the first ones built on your data and published where people already look.

  • Training

    Your builders learn to make data apps with Claude and Tableau, and to review what AI writes before it ships.

  • PHI and PII

    What an app may read, where it runs and who can see it, worked out with your data and security teams before launch.