Administration36% of the exam
Performance recordings, nested projects and site settings
How to create, read and stop a Tableau Server performance recording, create, move and delete nested projects and predict what happens to their content, and work with the site settings and commands an administrator uses most: Run Now, Site Time Zone for Extracts, site suspension and tsm sites unlock.
3.2 Describe how to: 3.2.1 View server status in multiple ways; 3.2.2 View email alerts; 3.2.3 Set data-driven alerts; 3.2.4 Use built-in administrative views; 3.2.5 Create custom admin views; 3.2.6 Create a performance recording; 3.2.7 Create a nested project; 3.2.8 Work with Sites and Site Admin options.
~7 min read · 9 practice questions
What the exam expects
- Create a performance recording on Tableau Server, take snapshots, stop it, and read the Timeline, Events and Query sections.
- Create a nested project in the right place and predict what moving or deleting a project does to its children, content and external assets.
- Use the Run Now and Site Time Zone for Extracts site settings and predict their effects.
- Suspend, activate and unlock a site, including when the Sites page cannot be reached.
Key terms:
- Performance recording: a workbook Tableau builds from events recorded while you use a view.
- Session ID (
:iid): the value Tableau Server appends to a view URL when it opens. - Nested (child) project: a project created inside another project.
- External assets: databases and tables that can sit in projects when Data Management is licensed and Catalog is enabled (from 2022.3).
- Site Time Zone for Extracts: the site setting for the time zone extract-based data sources use.
Key facts
Recording parameter
- Detail
:record_performance=yes&placed immediately before:iid
Snapshots
- Detail
- Up to the minute and cumulative
Stop recording
- Detail
- Move to another page or remove the parameter
Truncated query text
- Detail
- Full query is in the Tableau log
New > Project inside a project
- Detail
- Creates a child of the open project
Moving a project
- Detail
- Moves child projects and their assets too
Deleting a project
- Detail
- Deletes Tableau content and child projects; external assets kept
Run Now
- Detail
- Covers web, REST API and tabcmd; on by default
Extract time zone
- Detail
- Default UTC; used by NOW() and TODAY(); applies to internal extracts
Suspended site
- Detail
- Only a server administrator can activate it
tsm sites unlock- Detail
--site-idrequired;--desired-stateactive (default) or suspended
Sources for this section (7)
- Create a Performance Recordinghelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Interpret a Performance Recordinghelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Add Projects and Move Content Into Themhelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Site Settings Referencehelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Set the Site Time Zone for Extractshelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Site Availabilityhelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- tsm siteshelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- What does the bottom axis of a recording's Timeline view measure?
- Why might the Explore page not show the project tree?
- When can a deleted project be restored?
- Why might a relative-date filter caption change after the site's extract time zone changes?
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