Designated Contacts (DCs) are a feature of Premier and Signature Success Plans. Tableau is extending Designated Contacts to Premium and Extended support customers to help manage their Support experience following the transition to Salesforce Help.
Designated Contacts (DCs) are users in your organization who have unique permissions to access Support. Until a Tableau customer purchases a Signature or Premier Success Plan, Premier and Signature features will be unavailable.
DCs should have sufficient knowledge of Tableau and your organization's environment to work with Support Plan offerings and Support. DCs are typically business stakeholders such as Tableau administrators, IT contacts, and subject matter experts.
Primary Designated Contacts (Primary DCs) can create, view, deactivate, and edit the permissions of other DCs in their organization.
An individual must be a registered user on their deployment in order to be assigned as a Designated Contact.
As part of Tableau’s Support migration to Salesforce Help, Tableau has configured Primary DCs and DCs for existing Premium and Extended customers to ensure a smooth support experience transition.
To determine if a user is a DC or a Primary DC:
A Primary DC has Full Administrative Rights and Manage Designated Contacts checked on their DC record. If either of these are unchecked, the user will lose their Primary DC status.
Primary DCs have View All Cases by default for the selected Org. A Primary DC can see all support cases logged within any of the Org(s) for which they are a Primary DC. Primary DCs can enable View All Cases for other DCs in their org creating an "Admin Designated Contact" that has an additional permission along with the defaults listed below. The Admin Designated Contact cannot manage DC users.
DCs for Tableau customers have the following permissions by default:
| Premium & Extended Support | Signature and Premier Support | |||||
| Permission | Primary DC | DC | Standard User | Primary DC | DC | Standard User |
| View Case (own) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| View All Cases | Yes | No* | No | Yes | No | No |
| Create Case | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Manage DCs | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| View DC Permissions | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Edit DC Permissions | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Expert Coaching request | No (only for Signature or Premier customers) | No (only for Signature or Premier customers) | No (only for Signature or Premier customers) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Escalate Case | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
*If a DC needs View All Case permissions, they should reach out to their Primary Designated Contact to enable that permission for them.
Any DC can view their own permissions. However, only Primary DCs can view and edit permissions for other DCs.
To view DC permissions:
To edit permissions or assign a a new DC, you must be a Primary DC.
To change DC permissions or add a DC:
Only PDCs can suspend the rights for DCs and other PDCs by selecting Deactivate for the Designated Contact.
If a PDC wishes to re-enable the DC, the PDC can select an inactive DC from the list and click Activate.
Resources for contacting Salesforce Support:
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