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mradamlacey / elasticsearch-tableau-connector

Tableau Web Data Connector for Elasticsearch

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Do I need a tableau server ? #6

Closed mnanirban closed 8 years ago

mnanirban commented 8 years ago

Hi, Thanks for this connector , we were looking for similar implementation. I have few questions on how to install and run this.

Do I need a tableau server to install this?
Can this connector run as a webapp in a tomcat server ?
My office nw doesn't allow me to run grunt builds so how do I build it.

mradamlacey commented 8 years ago

You don't need a Tableau server to use the connector. You can run the connector locally and use Tableau Desktop to point at your local instance and pull in data. In order to publish/share worksheets with other users - you will have to install to Tableau server
No reason the connector can't run as a webapp in a tomcat server, it is purely static assets. You will want to run:

grunt build:dist

And simply serve the contents of the dist folder from Tomcat.

Not sure what restrictions your office has on grunt? Do you mean you don't have internet access? You will need to find a machine that does, run npm install and then copy the node_modules folder and copy that to your office environment.