# Promoting and deploying Tableau Next assets

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How Tableau Next assets move between orgs: promotion requests from Exploratory Orgs in Task Manager (guided or Salesforce CLI flow), sandbox deployment with change sets, data kits or the CLI for home and companion orgs, release-version rules, and manifest files.

- Certification: Salesforce Tableau Next Consultant
- Exam section: Managing Workspaces & Orgs
- Study guide: https://www.certifyforce.com/study-guide/tableau-next-consultant

**Official exam objective:**

> Understand how to deploy Tableau Next assets.

## What the exam expects

- Review an Exploratory Org (formerly Personal Org) promotion request and choose the guided or Salesforce CLI flow.
- Predict what happens to access and to the Exploratory Org copy when a promotion completes or fails.
- Pick the deployment route for Tableau Next assets in home and companion orgs: change sets, data kits or the Salesforce CLI.
- Apply release-version rules and data kit publishing order before deploying.
- Write a CLI manifest with the right asset type names and run the retrieve and deploy steps.

Key terms:
- **Promotion request:** an analyst's request to move Exploratory Org assets into production, handled in Task Manager.
- **Task Manager:** the production-only Tableau Next page where admins review and complete promotions.
- **Change set:** Setup's outbound and inbound packages of metadata between connected orgs.
- **Data kit (DevOps):** a Data 360 package of assets, such as semantic models and Tableau Next assets, deployed to home orgs.
- **Manifest (package.xml):** the XML file listing asset types and API names for the Salesforce CLI.

## Key facts

| Fact | Detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Where promotions are managed | Task Manager, production only | [Review and Complete Promotions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_admin_review_complete_promotions.htm&type=5&language=en_US) |
| Guided flow unavailable | Content with Excel files or data connections | [Review and Complete Promotions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_admin_review_complete_promotions.htm&type=5&language=en_US) |
| Newer Exploratory Org release | Promotion blocked by schema mismatch | [Review and Complete Promotions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_admin_review_complete_promotions.htm&type=5&language=en_US) |
| After completion | Admin gets full access in production; loses it in the Exploratory Org | [Review and Complete Promotions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_admin_review_complete_promotions.htm&type=5&language=en_US) |
| Companion orgs | No data kits; semantic models sync from home | [Deploy Tableau Next Assets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_deploy_sandbox.htm&type=5&language=en_US) |
| Change set component types | AnalyticsWorkspace, AnalyticsVisualization, AnalyticsDashboard | [Deploy with Change Sets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_deploy_assets_changeset.htm&type=5&language=en_US) |
| Publishing Sequence minimum | Semantic models, workspaces, visualizations, dashboards | [Deploy in a Data Kit](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_deploy_assets_datakit.htm&type=5&language=en_US) |
| Higher to lower major release | Not supported | [Use CLI to Deploy](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/analytics/tableau-next-isv-dev/guide/tn-deploy-assets-using-cli.html) |
| CLI order | Retrieve from source, then deploy to target, same manifest | [Use CLI to Deploy](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/analytics/tableau-next-isv-dev/guide/tn-deploy-assets-using-cli.html) |

## Check yourself

- When a promoted asset shares an API name with a production asset but has a different asset ID, what does the reviewer see?
- When the same content is promoted a second time, does the admin automatically receive access again?
- Why can a CLI deployment sometimes skip the data kit entirely?
- Where does `sf project retrieve start` write the retrieved asset metadata in the VS Code project?

## Sources

- [Review and Complete Asset Promotions from Exploratory Orgs to Production](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_admin_review_complete_promotions.htm&type=5&language=en_US)
- [Promote Exploratory Org Workspace Assets to Production](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_workspace_exploratory_org_promo.htm&type=5&language=en_US)
- [Deploy Tableau Next Assets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_deploy_sandbox.htm&type=5&language=en_US)
- [Deploy Tableau Next Assets with Change Sets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_deploy_assets_changeset.htm&type=5&language=en_US)
- [Deploy Tableau Next Assets in a Data Kit](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_deploy_assets_datakit.htm&type=5&language=en_US)
- [Use CLI to Deploy Tableau Next Assets from Sandbox to Production](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/analytics/tableau-next-isv-dev/guide/tn-deploy-assets-using-cli.html)
- [Tableau Next Exploratory Org](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_admin_personal_prod_org.htm&type=5&language=en_US)

## About the full unit

The "Core concepts", "Exam traps" and "Worked scenario" sections of this unit, its 10 linked practice questions, and unlimited timed mock exams are included with the Tableau Next Consultant pack (USD $19): https://www.certifyforce.com/practice-exams