Anton Grobman

When we were building MyALPO, our internal portal to Tableau Server, we knew we wanted to include a search functionality. But it turns out search is a pretty complicated thing to build. When sat down to build the functionality, we had more questions than direction. We weren’t quite sure how to approach the problem, and we couldn’t find any resources on the web to help guide us.

MyALPO provides a personalized homepage for every user so people can quickly and easily find what they need. With more and more people authoring workbooks and data sources to Tableau Server, this scalable solution has proven immensely valuable to our users. We don’t plan to productionalize MyALPO, but we’d like to share what we learned along the way.

As our company has grown, we’ve seen more and more people publishing workbooks and data sources to Tableau Server, which we’re thrilled to see. But the growth has also posed a challenge. With more people authoring content, it has become increasingly harder for people to quickly find what they need. That’s why we built MyALPO, an internal tool that provides a personalized homepage for every user.