Synchronized Refresh Extension for Tableau Dashboards

Ensure your dashboard reflects the most up-to-date data with Synchronized Refresh. This extension automatically refreshes your dashboard’s data sources at a time interval of your choice. It also allows users to select a specific time at which the refresh interval should start. This extension will only refresh data sources with live connections.

What's The Ideal Dashboard For This Extension?

This extension is perfect for dashboards that are shared between multiple users and contain frequently changing data.

How to Use This Extension?

Step by Step

Find the Extensions button that is located at the bottom of the left sidebar of Tableau. Click and drag it onto your dashboard. A modal will appear.

Then use the search bar in the upper left and search for, ‘Synchronized Refresh.’ Select it, then click ‘Add to Dashboard’ in the upper right. A container will appear on your dashboard with the date and time that the data sources were last refreshed and a progress bar displaying the time remaining until the next refresh.

The content of the extension container will differ based on the container’s dimensions. For example, the progress bar and remaining time will be hidden when the container is shorter. When the container is shorter, hover over the previous refresh timestamp to view further information about the next refresh.

Dashboard authors can change the configuration settings by clicking on the downward arrow on the upper right-hand corner of the extension container and choosing ‘Configure.’ A modal will appear prompting the user to choose an interval and start time (click the checkbox to activate the start time selector).

Once you’re happy with your configuration, click apply to save your changes, sit back, and enjoy having your data automatically refreshed!

*Please keep in mind that changes to the configuration will affect the refresh timing for all users viewing the dashboard

We Hope You Find This Extension Useful

It will allow you to collaborate more easily with teammates and save you time by automating an otherwise manual process. If you have any questions, need help, or are interested in having a team of Tableau experts design dashboards and custom extensions for you, please reach out.

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