Connect Tableau to ChatGPT
Give ChatGPT governed access to Tableau’s 26 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Tableau to ChatGPT in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in ChatGPT then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Add Tableau to Runlayer
Tableau isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect ChatGPT to Runlayer
Admins publish the Runlayer Plugin and its skill to the whole ChatGPT organization. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, Tableau’s 26 tools show up in ChatGPT’s own tool list.
ChatGPT setup guide - 3
Sign in to Tableau
Sign in the way Tableau requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Tableau from ChatGPT
Tableau’s approved tools appear in ChatGPT. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
26 Tableau tools in ChatGPT
Runlayer policy decides which of these ChatGPT users can call.
Download workbook
Downloads workbook content as a TWB (application/xml) or TWBX (application/octet-stream) file.
Generate pulse insight brief
Generate a concise insight brief for Pulse Metrics using Tableau REST API.
Generate pulse metric value insight bundle
Generate an insight bundle for the current aggregated value for Pulse Metric using Tableau REST API.
Get custom view data
Retrieves comma-separated value (CSV) data for a Tableau Custom View (saved/personalized view state), including the user's filters.
Get custom view image
Retrieves an image of the specified custom view in a published viz.
Get datasource metadata
Retrieves metadata for a specified datasource by taking the basic, high level, metadata results from Tableau's VizQL Data Service and enriches them with additional context provided by Tableau's…
Get view
Retrieves information about the specified view, including upstream datasources, workbook information, project details, owner, tags, and usage statistics.
Get view data
Retrieves data for the specified view in a Tableau workbook, including the user's filters.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in ChatGPT
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what ChatGPT exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Tableau call from ChatGPT passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, ChatGPT as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Compliance API import (available)
OpenAI Compliance Logs Platform imports ChatGPT web chats for review.
Managed browser extension (available)
Managed Chrome, Edge, and Firefox deployments can monitor supported web-chat activity and apply prompt-time controls where the surface permits it.
Native enforcement adapter (not available)
Runlayer has no device-side adapter for ChatGPT yet, so control happens at the gateway.
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