Connect Tableau Cloud Web Authoring to Salesforce Data Cloud

Applies to: Data Cloud, Tableau Cloud

The Salesforce Data Cloud connector was released in Tableau Cloud in October 2023. This connector seamlessly connects Tableau to Data Cloud, and is available for Tableau Desktop, Tableau Cloud, Tableau Server and Tableau Prep. Compared to the older CDP connector, the Salesforce Data Cloud connector is easier to connect with, shows object labels instead of API names and is powered by accelerated queries.

Note: Data Cloud was previously called Customer Data Platform (CDP). The Customer Data Platform connector was deprecated in October 2023, was made unavailable for new connections in Tableau Cloud June 2024 and has been removed entirely from Tableau Cloud October 2024 and later. Existing assets that use the CDP connector must be recreated using the Salesforce Data Cloud connector.

Connect Tableau Cloud Web Authoring to the Customer Data Platform by completing the following steps.

  1. From an Explore page, select New, then Workbook. Or select the Data menu, then New Data Source.
  2. In the Connect to Data window, select the Connectors tab.
  3. Select Salesforce Data Cloud.
  4. Log in and allow access when prompted.
  5. Select the Data space. Data spaces represent a logical segregation of the data in Data Cloud. Data spaces didn't exist before the Salesforce June '23 release.
  6. Use Object to filter by the type of Data Cloud object, or select All Objects.
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