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Run Your Under Development Connector in Tableau Desktop

This guide explains how to run Tableau Desktop without signature verification while developing a Tableau connector for a new data source.

Yehwan Hwang

• 2 min read
Run Your Under Development Connector in Tableau Desktop
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When developing a Tableau connector, the TACO file must be signed using jarsigner before execution. However, during development and testing, you may need to run an unsigned TACO file. Here are three ways to disable signature verification and run Tableau Desktop in such cases.

Run Your Connector
Build connectors to connect to ODBC and JDBC data sources in Tableau.
Tableau Connector SDK

Method 1. Running via CLI

  1. Open the command prompt.
  2. Navigate to the Tableau Desktop installation path and run tableau.exe with the signature verification disable option.

    tableau.exe -DDisableVerifyConnectorPluginSignature=true

Method 2. Creating a Shortcut

  1. Right-click on the desktop or in File Explorer and select New → Shortcut.
  2. Specify the Tableau Desktop installation path and append the signature verification disable option to create the shortcut.

    <Install Path>\bin\tableau.exe -DDisableVerifyConnectorPluginSignature=true

Method 3. Modifying the Registry

  1. Open the Windows Registry Editor.
  2. Add the signature verification disable option to the value data of the two registry paths associated with .twb and .twbx file extensions.
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Tableau.Workbook.2\shell\open\command
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Tableau.PackagedWorkbook.2\shell\open\command
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