Connection property | Description |
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Connection Name | Name of the connection. Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -, Maximum length is 255 characters. |
Description | Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters. |
Use Secret Vault | Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization. This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization. This property is not supported by Data Ingestion and Replication and the Data Access Management services. When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured. Note: If you’re using this connection to apply data access policies through pushdown or proxy services, you cannot use the Secret Vault configuration option. For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration. |
Runtime Environment | The name of the runtime environment where you want to run the tasks. Select a Secure Agent or elastic runtime environment. For more information about how to configure and use the runtime environments, see Runtime environments. |
Tableau Product | The name of the Tableau product to which you want to connect. You can choose one of the following Tableau products to publish the .hyper file:
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Authentication Method | The authentication method to connect to Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud. Select one of the following methods:
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Connection URL | The URL of the Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud where you want to publish the data extract file. The URL has the following format: http://<Host name of Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud>:<port> |
User Name | The user name for the Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud account. |
Password | The password for the Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud account. |
Personal Access Token Name | The personal access token to connect to the Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud account. |
Token Secret | The token secret associated with the personal access token to connect to the Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud account. |
Site ID | The site name that points to a specific site on Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud where you want to publish the data extract file. Contact the Tableau administrator to provide the site ID. |
Schema File Path | The path of the data extract file required to import the Tableau metadata. Enter one of the following options for the schema file path:
When you provide the Tableau schema file path, the Secure Agent generates the .hyper file from the source object based on the data representation in the specified target directory. You can only specify an empty directory if you want to publish the .hyper file to Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud. When you do not specify a schema file path, the Secure Agent displays the projects and data sources that are present on Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud when you select the target object in the Object target properties. The Secure Agent uses the following default file path for the target .hyper file: <Secure Agent installation directory>/apps/Data_Integration_Server/<latest version>/main/bin/rdtm |