Popularity

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Core Connector Core connectors are included with all Alation platform tiers (subject to each tier’s connector limits) and are fully supported by Alation.

Report Popularity

Report Popularity in Alation is calculated using the “Views“ column in Tableau UI (as shown in the image). Views in Tableau is the number of the times a View or a Sheet was viewed by a user.

Popularity of a view (calculated within a workbook) is calculated as [ (View-count of the view)/(View-count of the view with maximum view-count in the workbook) ] * 100.

View popularity in Alation:

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View counts in Tableau:

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Workbook popularity

Workbook popularity is supported from Tableau OCF Connector version 1.6.8. The view count of workbook in Tableau is calculated as the sum of the view counts of the individual view within the workbook.

Popularity of a workbook(calculated within a project(project-level)) is calculated as [ (View-count of the workbook)/(View-count of the workbook with maximum view-count in the project) ] * 100.

Workbook popularity in Alation:

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Workbook view counts in Tableau: