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Fugo's Tableau app lets you display a live Tableau dashboard on your digital signage screens without leaving a browser tab open and logged in on a device near your screen.

Instead of streaming your dashboard from an open, signed-in browser session, Fugo signs in to Tableau on a schedule using credentials you provide once, captures an up-to-date screenshot of your dashboard, and displays that image on screen like any other piece of content. Your credentials and any secret key are encrypted and stored securely, and you control how often Fugo refreshes the screenshot.

Before you connect your dashboard, a couple of recommendations that apply whenever you're connecting any third-party dashboard service to Fugo:

Create a dedicated, least-privileged (read-only where possible) Tableau account for Fugo to use, rather than an individual employee's login. This avoids interruptions from unexpected logouts, security alerts, or phone-number-linked recovery prompts, and limits what Fugo can access in your Tableau site.

You can find instructions for setting up a dedicated service account with Google Workspace here.

You'll need the URL of the specific Tableau dashboard or view you want to display – not just your Tableau site's login URL. Open the dashboard in Tableau, copy its URL, and keep it handy for the setup steps below.

When you connect a Tableau dashboard, Fugo checks that your URL is a tableau.com URL, then asks you to choose how Fugo should sign in. Tableau supports three sign-in methods:

Fugo signs in directly with your Tableau username and password, the same as logging in to your Tableau site without an identity provider in between.

If your organization uses Okta to sign in to Tableau (single sign-on), choose this option and Fugo will follow Okta's sign-in flow before landing back in Tableau.

If your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) to sign in to Tableau, choose this option. Fugo currently handles Azure sign-in with the same generic SSO handling it uses for other Microsoft-family logins, so setup looks and feels the same as any other SSO option here.

A Secret Key is the same kind of alphanumeric seed value an authenticator app (like Google Authenticator or Authy) uses to generate a time-based one-time code (TOTP). Fugo uses it to generate the correct 2FA code automatically each time it signs in, so you won't need to re-authenticate manually. How you get this key depends on how you sign in to Tableau.

If you use Okta or Azure to sign in to Tableau, get your secret key from that provider:

If you don't use an identity provider to sign in to Tableau, or your Tableau account has Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) turned on, you'll get your secret key by setting up a Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) authenticator app directly on your Tableau service account:

1. In Tableau, go to Users, select your service account, then choose Authentication from the Actions dropdown.

2. Choose Tableau with MFA as the authentication method, then sign back in to your Tableau account.

3. When registering a verification method, choose One-Time Password Generator.

4. When prompted to connect an authenticator app, choose I Can't Scan the QR Code to reveal the secret key as text, and copy it somewhere safe – you'll need it again shortly.

5. Enter that secret key into an authenticator app (any TOTP app works – for example Google Authenticator, or a desktop app like Step Two) to generate a verification code, then enter that code back into Tableau to complete setup.

With your secret key saved, you're ready to connect your dashboard in Fugo.

1. Log in to your Fugo account. If you don't have one yet, start your free trial at www.fugo.ai/app.

2. Go to Dashboards in the left-hand navigation, then click Create Dashboard.

3. Under Browse dashboards, select the Tableau tile.

4. Enter the URL of your specific Tableau dashboard. Fugo checks that it's a valid tableau.com URL before letting you continue.

5. Choose your authentication method: Sign in with Tableau, Sign in with Okta, or Sign in with Azure.

6. Enter your username, password, and secret key as described above.

7. Click Create dashboard.

8. This opens the dashboard editor. In the background, Fugo uses your URL and credentials to sign in and capture a screenshot – this can take a minute or two. You can close the editor and come back later, or configure settings while you wait (see Edit your dashboard – advanced settings below).

9. Give your dashboard a name – you'll need one to save it.

10. Once saved, your dashboard appears in your Dashboards library with a default refresh interval of once per day.

Not every dashboard is "screen ready" as-is – some are long, dense, or have small elements that are hard to read from a distance.

Add your saved dashboard to a Design Studio canvas to crop it down to just the chart or panel you need, and combine it with other apps, text, or media on the same slide. Open (or start) a Studio design, find your dashboard under the Dashboards panel, and drag it onto the canvas.

From there you can crop, resize, and combine it with other elements, then publish the design to a playlist the same way described below.

👉 Learn how in our Design Studio overview

A dashboard isn't published directly from the editor or your library. Instead:

1. Open (or create) a playlist, and add your dashboard to it as a content item.

2. Target that playlist to the screen(s) you want it to appear on.

3. Publish the playlist.

The same dashboard can be reused across multiple playlists and screens – updating and saving it updates everywhere it's used, so you don't need to republish each screen individually.

👉 Learn how in our Playlists overview

Clicking your dashboard in the library opens the dashboard editor, where you can adjust the Refresh Interval (how often Fugo re-captures your dashboard), resolution, and other capture settings, and choose whether Fugo runs the sign-in/capture steps in the cloud, on your own on-premise server, or on the player device itself.

These settings work the same way for every dashboard type.

👉 See the full breakdown – including Resolution, Pause duration, Memory, Proxy region, and On-Premise/Local Player options – in our Dashboards Overview.

If you run into trouble setting up or troubleshooting your Tableau dashboard, reach out to us any time: