Licenses

Tableau offers two licensing models: user based and core based. User based licensing requires a individual license for each person that will be accessing content from the server. Each user has a unique user name assigned to them on the server and is required to identify themselves when connecting to the server. The software may be installed on a single machine or distributed across any number of machines in a distributed environment.

 

Core based licensing has no constraints on the number of users that may access the system. The core license allows you to install Tableau Server on computers that have a defined number of processing cores in them. You may install the server on one or more computers to create a cluster, with the restriction that the total number of cores in all the computers do not exceed the number of cores you have licensed.

 

For either type of licensing you use, Tableau Server requires at least one product key that activates the server and either specifies the original number of license levels you can assign to users or the number of allowed processors (capacity) . When you first configure the server, you are asked to activate the product by entering a product key. As you continue to use Tableau Server you can add product keys that will increase the capacity. You can add and delete licenses using the Product Key Manager on the server itself. Refer to the Administrator Guide for more information about managing product keys.

 

Your product keys, licensing levels, and expiration dates are listed on the Licensing page or can be accessed using Tabadmin. This topic discusses how to distribute license levels and user rights.

To open the Licenses page:

 

License Levels

All users on Tableau Server must be assigned a license level, even if it is that they are Unlicensed. License Levels control how much access the user has on the server. For example, users with the Viewer license level do not have access to interact with views (even if they've been given permission by the author of the view). Additionally, only users with the Interactor license level can be granted the special right to be an administrator.

 

Your product keys for Tableau Server give you a set of license levels that, as an administrator, you can distribute to your users. You can assign the following license levels:

 

 

You can review how these levels have been distributed on the Licenses page.

 

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To assign license levels to users:

  1. Navigate to the list of users by clicking Users in the Administration area on the left side of the page.

     

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  2. Select one or more users to assign a license level to.

  3. Click the License User link in the Actions toolbar along the top of the list.

  4. Select the license level to assign to the selected users.

     

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User Rights

In addition, to the license levels, you can also assign the following user rights:

 

To allow and deny user rights:

  1. Navigate to the list of users by clicking Users in the Administration area on the left side of the page.

     

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  2. Select one or more users to assign user rights to

  3. Click the Publishing or Admin links in the Actions toolbar along the top of the list.

  4. Select Allow or Deny to assign or deny the right to the selected users.

     

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