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Reputation: 2195

publish tableau workbook (twb or twbx) without tableau desktop

Has anybody found a way to spoof the requests that tableau desktop makes when publishing a report? I obviously know that they do not provide an API, but it seems like it should be pretty straightforward to just authenticate, and then POST the workbook. Has anybody found a way to do this? I publish a few workbooks very regularly (with minor changes that I can make using sed/awk) and I would like to set up a script to automate the process.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6367

Answers (2)

Russell Christopher
Russell Christopher

Reputation: 1707

No need to reverse-engineer the POST - you can use the TabCmd.exe console app to publish the workbook to Server:

tabcmd.exe login -u username -p password -s http://serverlocation
tabcmd.exe publish -n "c:\path\to\SomeWorkbook.twbx"

Batch this puppy up and you have an easy way to publish.

BTW, if you don't have TabCmd on your box, copy it from the \bin folder of server, along with the following support files:

boost_signals_vc100-mt-1_45.dll
iconv.dll
libeay32.dll
ssleay32.dll

Upvotes: 6

ratneshsinghparihar
ratneshsinghparihar

Reputation: 301

you can create a wcf service and host in tableau server as a windows service. write some opretation contract which can execute tabcmd commands in server. from outside you can call operations to publish reports.

Upvotes: 1

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