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VizQL Data Service 2025.1

February 2025

This is the initial public release of the VizQL Data Service (VDS). VDS provides a way for you to access your data outside of a Tableau visualization (viz).

With a viz, you perform operations like dragging a pill to rows or columns. This achieves two things: It fetches data from the data source, and it creates a visualization of that data. VDS allows you to perform a fetch of the data without the need for any visualization.

Changes from the earlier release

There are substantial changes from the previous developer preview release. If you used the developer preview release, please note the following changes.

VizQL Data Service Developer Preview

October 2024

In this developer preview release, we added the API Access permission capability. To query a data source with the VizQL Data Service, you must assign this capability in the Permission dialog. For more information, see Assign API access capability in Configuration.

We also moved theVizQL Data Service Postman collection from its location in the Tableau pre-release site to its new GitHub repository.

June 2024

This is the initial developer preview release of the VizQL Data Service. This is a closed release, only available to a small number of developers.

This release introduces the initial set of API methods and endpoints for using the VizQL Data Service.