There’s a great Whitepaper which really goes in depth on how to configure Tableau for Row Level Security, but sometimes it’s nice to have a quick overview that cuts right to the chase. Over a lot of years of explaining how it works, I hope this will outline the standard way of implementing RLS in Tableau in a way that helps you get results as quickly as possible.

Row Level Security is the process of securely filtering data down so a user only see what they should once they are looking at a data source. You could call it “User Data Filtering” just as easily. In essence, you are limiting the returned rows – hence “row level security”.

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