# How to get developer access to Einstein capabilities in Tableau

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2021-04-03
- **Format:** Video · 9 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** AI & ML, Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, einstein, extensions)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-get-developer-access-to-einstein-capabilities-in-tableau
- **Watch:** https://youtu.be/ZReSwXK0reo

I walk through how to get developer access to Einstein capabilities inside Tableau, covering the Salesforce and Tableau prerequisites involved. I explain the route via the Salesforce Trailhead developer edition and the Tableau developer program, and share my honest take that the setup is far from accessible for everyday Tableau users.

## Key takeaways

- Einstein in Tableau (Einstein Discovery, Dashboard Extensions and Table Calcs) can't simply be switched on like a normal feature; it requires Salesforce licences, user accounts and admin access on both Salesforce and Tableau sides.
- Sign up for a Tableau CRM enabled Salesforce developer edition via Trailhead, since a standard Salesforce developer org won't have Tableau CRM (formerly Einstein Analytics) enabled.
- Use the Tableau developer program to get a free Tableau Online instance for development, which lets you enable analytical extensions and test Einstein without an organisation's server.
- Tableau CRM is the rebranded Salesforce Einstein Analytics, and you can work through its entire Trailhead course without ever opening Tableau itself.
- The feature carries heavy assumed Salesforce knowledge and may increasingly be pitched at Salesforce customers rather than the existing Tableau user base.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Why Einstein is hard to try
- 1:11 Prerequisites on Salesforce and Tableau
- 2:38 Signing up via Trailhead developer edition
- 4:56 Getting a Tableau Online dev instance
- 6:50 My honest critique of accessibility

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-get-developer-access-to-einstein-capabilities-in-tableau

---
just-tim — Data and analytics, with a point of view. · https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HYxRWmaNlJux-X7rNLZyw · https://twitter.com/TableauTim · https://www.linkedin.com/in/timngwena