Tableau cloud application

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Using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), your users can use their Google Cloud credentials to sign in to enterprise-cloud applications.

Set up SSO via SAML for Tableau

Here's how to set up single sign-on (SSO) via SAML for the Tableau application.

Step 1: Get Google identity provider (IdP) information

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Click Add appSearch for apps.
4. Enter Tableau in the search field.
5. In the search results, hover over the Tableau SAML app and click Select.
6. On the Google Identity Provider details page, download the IDP metadata.

Leave the Admin console open, you'll continue with SSO setup after performing the next step in Tableau.

Step 2: Set up Tableau as a SAML 2.0 service provider (SP)

1. In a new browser tab, log into your Tableau application as an administrator.
2. Go to Settings > Authentication
3. Check Single sign-on with SAML
4. Copy the Entity ID and the ACS URL from Export metadata file from Tableau Online.
   You'll need this info to finish setting up SSO for Tableau in the Admin Console in Step 3 below.
5. In Import metadata file into Tableau Online, click Browse and select the IdP metadata file you downloaded in Step 1 above.
6. Click Apply to upload the Google IdP metadata.
7. Under Match assertions, add the assertion names email, FirstName, and LastName for the Attributes Email, First name and Last name, respectively.
8. Click Apply.
9. Select Allow users to choose their authentication type under Default authentication type for embedded views. 
10. Open the Users tab.
11. Hover on the overflow menu (the 3 dots). Select Authentication from the displayed menu.
12. Select Single sign on.

Step 3: Finish SSO configuration in Admin console

1. Return to the Admin console browser tab.
2. On the Google Identity Provider details page, click Continue.
3. On the Service provider details page, replace the default ACS URL and Entity ID values with the ACS URL and Entity ID values you copied from Tableau in Step 2 above.
4. Click Continue.
5. On the Attribute mapping page, click the Select field menu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding Tableau attributes:
    

   Google directory attribute	Tableau attribute
   Basic Information > Primary Email	email (required)
   Basic Information > First Name	FirstName
   Basic Information > Last Name	LastName

6. (Optional) To enter group names that are relevant for this app:

   1. For Group membership (optional), click Search for a group, enter one or more letters of the group name, and select the group name.
   2. Add additional groups as needed (maximum of 75 groups).
   3. For App attribute, enter the groups attribute name of the corresponding service provider.

   Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response includes only groups that a user is a member of (directly or indirectly). For more information, go to About group membership mapping.

7. Click Finish.

Step 4: Enable the Tableau app

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Select Tableau.
4. Click User access.

5. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.

6. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Note: Learn more about organizational structure.
7. To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.
8. Ensure that your Tableau user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.

Step 5: Verify that the SSO is working

Tableau supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either mode:

IdP-initiated

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Select Tableau.
4. At the top left, click Test SAML login. 

   Tableau should open in a separate tab. If it doesn’t, use the information in the resulting SAML error messages to update your IdP and SP settings as needed, then retest SAML login.

SP-initiated

1. Close all browser windows.
2. Open https://sso.online.tableau.com/public/login and attempt to sign in. You should be automatically redirected to the Google sign in page.
3. Enter your sign in credentials.
4. After your sign in credentials are authenticated, you are automatically redirected back to Tableau.

 

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