# Tableau Roles and Licenses

## Recommended Roles and Licenses

We recommend to use a Creator license with the Site Administrator Creator role for the easiest setup and most complete ingestion result.

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## Other supported Roles and Licenses

Datalogz supports the following licenses:

* Creator License (recommended)
* Explorer License

Datalogz supports the following roles to connect to your Tableau site and harvest metadata:

* Administrator
* Explorer, with [configured permissions](https://help.tableau.com/current/online/en-us/permission_license_siterole.htm)

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="248.87890625" valign="top">Tableau Role</th><th valign="top">Available Assets</th><th valign="top">Notes</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Viewer</td><td valign="top">Reports, workbooks, data sources (limited scope)</td><td valign="top">Not supported</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Explorer (no external asset access)</td><td valign="top">Reports, workbooks, data sources (limited scope)</td><td valign="top">Supported, but without lineage. Databases and tables are not available.</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Explorer (with external asset access)</td><td valign="top">Reports, workbooks, data sources, databases and tables</td><td valign="top">Requires correct permissions and Tableau Catalog settings</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><p>Site Administrator </p><p>(<strong>Recommended</strong>)</p></td><td valign="top">All Tableau content</td><td valign="top">Access limited to assigned Tableau sites.</td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Server Administrator</td><td valign="top">All Tableau content</td><td valign="top">Full server-wide access</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Best Practice: How to Configure the Explorer Role

First, make sure that the following settings are enabled in **Settings > General**:

* **Data Management**, which is required to run the Tableau Metadata API and give the Explorer user access to databases and tables.
* **Automatically grant authorized users access to metadata about databases and tables**
* **Show complete lineage** (default)
* **Turn on Tableau Catalogue** (only when you want to configure access on an asset to asset basis).

Next, give the Explorer access to Tableau projects:

* For large projects that change often, we recommend making the Explorer a project leader. This ensures that the Explorer can access all Tableau assets within the project, including databases and tables.
* For projects where project leader status cannot be given, make sure that the Explorer has view access to all assets within the project.

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