Examining the Home page

The Home page is the first thing you see when you open Tableau Server. It is designed to assist users by providing quick access to their most valuable content, which it does by prominently displaying much of what they may need in a single location. To return to this page from another server location, simply click the link identified by the house icon and the word Home, which can be found on the Navigation Pane on the left-hand side of your Tableau Server window.

Clicking the house icon will open your Home page, where you will see a welcome banner at the top of your screen with the available page content displayed below it. Your content appears in the form of thumbnail images with labels directly below. Selecting a thumbnail will immediately open that item and transport you to its location on Tableau Server. We will learn more about this in the next section when we discuss the Explore page.

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