Tableau Ingestion Guide: Setup & Prerequisites
In order to configure ingestion from Tableau, you'll first have to enable Tableau Metadata API and you should have a user with Site Administrator Explorer permissions.
Tableau Prerequisites
Grant
Site Administrator Explorer permissions
to a userA. Log in to Tableau Cloud https://sso.online.tableau.com/public/idp/SSO.
B. Navigate to
Users
.C. For New User: Follow below steps to grant permission for new user.
Click
Add Users
->Add Users by Email
Fill
Enter email addresses
, setSite role
toSite Administrator Explorer
and ClickAdd Users
D. For Existing User: Follow below steps to grant permission for existing user.
Select a user and click
Actions
->Site Role
Change user role to
Site Administrator Explorer
Enable Tableau Metadata API: This step is required only for Tableau Server. The Metadata API is installed with Tableau Server but disabled by default.
- Open a command prompt as an admin on the initial node (where TSM is installed) in the cluster
- Run the command:
tsm maintenance metadata-services enable
Next Steps
Once you've done all of the above in Tableau, it's time to move on to configuring the actual ingestion source within DataHub.