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Tableau user roles

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Tableau user roles

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- [Instructor] Now let's dive a little bit deeper into Tableau user roles. Tableau Prep is included as part of the Tableau Creator role, which includes Tableau Prep Builder, Tableau Desktop, and one license of either Tableau Server or Tableau Online. Now, there's a difference between Tableau user roles and Tableau products. User roles represent what a user can do: View, explore, and create. Products represent what tools those users will have access to, to be able to create, explore and view. These include Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, and Tableau Server. You'll see that with the different roles, you'll get access to different products. The Creator role will give you access to all three, including Desktop, Prep and Server. An Explorer role will give you access to an online version of desktop called Web Authoring and Server Access. And finally, the viewer role will give you access directly to Tableau Server. Each of the roles and products are important to understand because as a…

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