Link Tableau to SSRS
June 7th, 2011
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I’ve had a few visitors coming to the site searching for how to link Tableau to SSRS so I thought I’d write a quick post on how I’ve done it.
You need to make use of the URL action in Tableau, which you use in a dashboard. To be wanting to know how to link from Tableau to SSRS I am asuming a basic familiarity with Tableau dashboards. You will need a dashboard to make the link work.
To begin you need to create a dashboard and put whatever graphs, etc, you want on it. Next we need something on the dashboard from which to create our URL Action to take us to our SSRS report. Unfortunately there aren’t any controls such as buttons in Tableau so we need to create a new worksheet to act as our ‘button’. Read more…