Making Use of the Tableau Metadata API

One of the stories that has been difficult to tell in prior versions of Tableau was the relationship of Tableau content that exists on your server. In versions prior to 2019.3 this would most likely exist in some form of querying against the postgres database to find objects and workbooks but didn’t really answer the questions of how all of the items related to one another and what the dependencies were. This changed with the introduction of the Tableau Metadata API.

With the Metadata API the relationships between the items that live on Tableau Server are now…