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← Extensions API — all routes

Base camp

A web page, a manifest, and the handshake that puts your code inside a dashboard.

3 stops

  1. Run

    An extension is just a web page

    Hold the whole architecture in your head: a dashboard extension is a web page Tableau loads into a zone, plus one XML file that tells Tableau where to find it.

  2. Run

    The .trex manifest: how Tableau finds your page

    Write the one XML file that registers your page as an extension — and know the three lines you will ever need to change.

  3. Run

    Serve it, add it, debug it

    Run your extension inside a real dashboard and open Chrome DevTools against it — the loop you will live in for every extension you build.

  4. Summit

    Your own web page is running inside a dashboard, with DevTools open against it.