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To setup scheduled refreshes inside Tableau Server, the base Connector URL needs to be whitelisted

Base connector URLs to be whitelisted for Jira Hosted are determined by removing the token parameters at the end from a connector URL

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https://jira.example.com/plugins/servlet/aio-tb/public/tableauconnect

https://jira.example.com:443/plugins/servlet/aio-tb/public/tableauconnect

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Instructions for Tableau Server version 2018.1 and below

  1. Open terminal window (Command prompt on Windows)

  2. Change to Tableau server installation/bin directory (Example on windows: cd C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\10.3\bin)

  3. Enter command as follows (replace Replace URLs in the command with your connector base URLs as explained above)

    Code Block
    languagebash
    tabadmin whitelist_webdataconnector -a https://jira.example.com/plugins/servlet/aio-tb/public/tableauconnect
    tabadmin whitelist_webdataconnector -a https://jira.example.com:443/plugins/servlet/aio-tb/public/tableauconnect
  4. Restart Tableau Server

    Code Block
    languagebash
    tabadmin restart

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Instructions for Tableau Server version 2018.2 and above

With Tableau Server 2018.2, tabadmin utility has been replaced with tsm utility. More information can be found here: Comparing Functionality of tabadmin and TSM

  1. Open terminal window (Command prompt on Windows)

  2. Change to Tableau server installation/bin directory (\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\packages\bin.<version>)

  3. Enter commands as follows (replace Replace URLs in the command with your connector base URLs as explained above)

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    languagebash
    tsm data-access web-data-connectors allow -r true
    tsm data-access web-data-connectors add -n "AIO_Tableau_Connector_Jira_1" --url https://jira.example.com/plugins/servlet/aio-tb/public/tableauconnect --secondary https://jira.example.com/.*,https://jira.example.com:443/.*
    tsm data-access web-data-connectors add -n "AIO_Tableau_Connector_Jira_2" --url https://jira.example.com:443/plugins/servlet/aio-tb/public/tableauconnect --secondary https://jira.example.com/.*,https://jira.example.com:443/.*
  4. Apply changes and restart Tableau Server

    Code Block
    languagebash
    tsm pending-changes apply
  5. After restart, confirm that the URLs have been whitelisted

    Code Block
    languagebash
    tsm data-access web-data-connectors list

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