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← Extensions API — all routes

Reacting & controlling

Listen for selections and filter changes, then drive the dashboard back — both directions of the conversation.

4 stops

  1. Run

    React when the dashboard changes

    Re-run your code the instant a viewer changes a filter, selects marks, or moves a parameter — no polling, no refresh button.

  2. Run

    Drive the dashboard from your page

    Apply filters and select marks from your own buttons and dropdowns — the custom controls Tableau’s native UI cannot build.

  3. Run

    Settings: survive the reload

    Save your extension’s configuration into the workbook itself, so it wakes up configured — for every viewer, on every open.

  4. Run

    A real settings UI: the config dialog

    Give your extension a proper configuration window — opened from its context menu, saving through the settings API, closing with a result.

  5. Summit

    Configurable like a product: dialog in, settings saved, every viewer gets it.