Tuesday, April 19, 2011


Trigger Query to Google Spreadsheets

This post is based upon a nicely presented blog entry at blog.ouseful.info

In short: Google provides a thorough API for querying Google spreadsheets. This syntax can be triggered by a Tableau "URL Action". You are going to need to download this workbook and reverse engineer the google API and URL syntax, because as I have repeatedly said before, I am quite lazy sometimes...

3 comments:

  1. Steve WexlerApril 19, 2011 at 12:47 PM

    Now, if only Tableau had an API and a scripting language...

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  2. Tom BrownApril 20, 2011 at 1:50 AM

    Hmmm, I was hoping this was going to tell me how to use google docs as a data source...

    Anyone achieved this ty?

    Tom

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  3. northwestcoderApril 20, 2011 at 7:16 AM

    Not yet Tom... I wish there was a way...

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