Creating a Glossary report in Tableau as a URL Call Back to the MM Application

In order to produce a glossary of the fields in the report and allow you to further analyze the metadata in a report, the best way would be to allow Tableau to make a call back to Talend Data Catalog . In this case, there is a URL based result that produces a generic glossary report.

The glossary report is a simple report of all elements and sub reports contained in a report and then all terms linked to those elements and sub reports and any terms linked to the report as a whole. It is designed to be invoked from a URL which can be called from within Tableau itself, thus allowing one to customize the reports themselves to provide the terms and definitions associated with the report.

Steps

1. Open the workbook in Tableau for which you wish to add a glossary.
2. Click Edit Workbook.
3. Click New Dashboard.
4. Name the dashboard a meaningful name, like “Glossary”.
5. Drag the Web Page object into the body of the dashboard.
6. Paste the call back URL (pointing back to Talend Data Catalog ) for the specific workbook. This is based upon the information defined in the MetadataExplorer.xml file for the environment (call back reference).
7. Click OK.
8. Click Publish.

Example

Open the workbook in Tableau

and click Edit Workbook.

Click New Dashboard.

Name the dashboard a meaningful name, like “Glossary”. Drag the Web Page object into the body of the dashboard and paste the call back URL (pointing back to Talend Data Catalog ) for the specific workbook.

Click OK and then Publish.