Tableau Online/Server: Role Types and their Capabilities

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Server
Category Role Site Admin. Creator Site Admin. Publish) Interactor Viewer Unlicensed Notes
Admin.

View lineage and impact ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

See data quality warnings ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Advanced Server Deployment Monitoring ✔ ✔ ✔
Programmatic Content Migration ✔ ✔ ✔
Set data quality warnings ✔ ✔ ✔
Create new workbooks based on pre-built Dashboard Starters ✔ ✔ ✔
Site and User Monitor flow performance and health ✔ ✔ ✔
Management Manage Groups, Projects, Workbooks and Data Connections ✔ ✔ ✔
Add Users of any Role Type ✔ ✔ ✔
Perform operations regardless of permissions set to the content ✔ ✔ ✔
Access and Create All Sites ✔
Control Site Adminstrators Ability to Add users ✔
Create Additional Server Administrators ✔
Access All Server Features: Maintenance, Settings, Schedules, Search Index ✔
"Ask Data" NLP via Published Data Sources ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Analysis
Perform "Explain Data" via Web Editing or Tableau Desktop ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Web Editing ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Connect to Published Data Sources ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Publish Dashboards using Published Data Sources ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Edit existing workbooks and visualizations ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Publishing and
Download Workbook/Save As ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Editing
Save Changes ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Move Files ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Delete Files ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Publish Dashboards using any data ✔ ✔ ✔
Publish New Data Sources ✔ ✔ ✔
Data Sources Tableau Prep ETL and Publish (.tfl) Flows ✔ ✔ ✔
Modify Existing (.tfl) Flows ✔ ✔ ✔
Browse Content ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Download visualizations as images (.pdf, .png) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Download summary data ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Interact with visualizations and dashboards ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Web and Mobile Access ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
View Embedded content ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Viewing and Create and share custom views ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Interactivity Comment on a dashboard or visualization ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Create a subscription for yourself ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Receive data-driven alerts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Create subscriptions for others ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Create data-driven alerts ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Download full data ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Export data (.tde, .hyper or .csv) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔