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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
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Grant Site Administrator Explorer permissionsto 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  
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Fill Enter email addresses, setSite roletoSite Administrator Explorerand ClickAdd Users  
 D. For Existing User: Follow below steps to grant permission for existing user. - 
Select a user and click Actions->Site Role  
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Change user role to Site Administrator Explorer  
 
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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.
