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Tableau Desktop Free Edition Fact Sheet! (Here’s What You Can & Can’t Do) #data #tableau #analytics

Tableau Desktop Free Edition gives you nearly everything the full version does — except publishing to Public, Cloud or Server.

  • Tableau Desktop Free Edition sits between the professional and public editions, sharing the same privacy and security as the full version.
  • You can save visualisations locally, use auto recovery, do live data refreshes locally and connect to all data sources locally.
  • You can download or copy published workbooks from Tableau Cloud, but only embedded connections work — published data sources or live Server/Cloud connections won't.
  • The two things you cannot do in Free Edition are publish to Tableau Public and publish to Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server.

Tableau Desktop now has a free edition that lets you build locally, connect to databases, and work with local data sources without the old Tableau Public restrictions that limited you to flat files. The trade-off is you can’t publish to Tableau Public or publish/connect to Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server, meaning published data sources and server/cloud-hosted connections aren’t accessible (embedded connections in downloaded workbooks may work).


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