Tableau asset and domain types

Warning The end of life of Jobserver and all related Jobserver integrations has been announced for September 30, 2024. This means that the Tableau via Jobserver integration method is deprecated and will also reach its end of life on September 30, 2024. To integrate Tableau metadata and create lineage, please use Edge or lineage harvester.

The Tableau integration of Collibra Data Intelligence Platform uses a specific subset of asset types and domain types. All of these come out of the box with your software.

The following table contains the asset an domain types that are used for the Tableau integration. Above each asset type you can see the parent asset types in the breadcrumbs.

Asset type Description

Domain type
Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder
Tableau Project

Collection of Tableau workbooks and data sources.

BI Catalog
Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder
Tableau Site

Collection of content (workbooks, data sources, users, …) that's walled off from any other content on that instance of Tableau Server.

BI Catalog
Business Asset  Report  BI Report  Tableau View 
Tableau Dashboard

A collection of several worksheets and supporting information, shown on a single screen, so that you can simultaneously compare and monitor a variety of data.

BI Catalog
Business Asset  Report  BI Report  Tableau View 
Tableau Worksheet

A worksheet is a single sheet on which you can build views of your data.

BI Catalog
Business Asset  Report  BI Report 
Tableau Workbook

Collection of sheets. A sheet can be a worksheet, a dashboard or a story.

BI Catalog
Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute  BI Data Attribute 
Tableau Data Attribute

A specification that defines a property of a Tableau data entity.

Examples: CustomerBirthDate, EmployeeFirstName.

BI Catalog
Data Asset  Data Element  Report Attribute  BI Report Attribute 
Tableau Report Attribute

An atomic unit of data that represents a Tableau report.

Examples: ExpenseAmount, RiskAmount

BI Catalog
Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Entity  BI Data Entity 

Tableau Data Entity

An abstraction from the physical implementation of database tables, used for Tableau report creation.

BI Catalog
Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Model  BI Data Model 
Tableau Data Model

An abstraction from the physical implementation of database, schema, file, etc., used for Tableau report creation.

BI Catalog
Technology Asset  Server  BI Server 
Tableau Server

A visual analytics platform for creating interactive dashboards and rich visualisations

BI Catalog
Technology Asset  System  BI Data Source 
Tableau Data Source

The link between Tableau and an external system. A Tableau data source contains the information to connect to external data, table names, the table relationships, and any customizations that you make.

BI Catalog

Note The BI Data Catalog domain type was formerly known as the Tableau Data Catalog domain type.