Tableau terminology entry overview

Each Tableau entry has to have certain mandatory metdata. These metadata (also called attributes) provide information about the context, definition, origin and grammatical properties of terms.

Entry level:

• Category - there are six possible categories:

  • • • • Product - main category of entries managed and maintained by Acclaro. These are mostly Tableau-specific terms, terms that are used in Tableau UI/UA content very often,  or data analysis-focused terms.

        • General - these are entries managed and maintained by RWS/Moravia, which translate marketing and sales content for Tableau.

        • Branding - managed and maintained by Acclaro, these are trademarked or non-trademarked terms, mostly product names of Tableau or other 3rd party companies

        • Geopol - managed and maintained by Acclaro, these are terms that are geopolitically or otherwise sensitive

        • Data set - managed and maintained by Acclaro, these are terms that come from sample data books that come with Tableau products. It is very important that these terms are translated consistently to avoid confusing users.

        • Slack - terms imported from Slack team, these term do not have to be followed. We are working on improving filtering out these terms from the view.

• Definition - important to understand the concept. 

• Source of Definition - information about the origin of definition.

Source term level:

• Status - very important metadata to check. Status values can be: Admitted (approved), Preferred and Deprecated (obsolete). Do not use Deprecated terms in your translation.

• Term type - full form, short form, abbreviation, acronym, variant

• Part of speech

• Context - a representative sentence that uses the term in question.

• Source of context - information about the origin of context sentence.