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SDK for Developing Tableau Connector Plugins
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New connector name not showing up in the Connectors List #1191

Closed ross8886 closed 9 months ago

ross8886 commented 9 months ago

Your question:

I have a set of code files (manifest.xml, dialect.tdd and other connector files) placed in “C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Tableau Repository\Connectors” folder.

I know that the name specified in manifest.xml file should show in the list of Connectors (Installed Connectors/Additional Connectors) in Tableau Desktop (2022.1.12), but it’s not. Tried adding the switch -DConnectPluginsPath="C:\Users\a758019\Documents\My Tableau Repository\Connectors" while launching Desktop, still no luck.

Later I downloaded the sample manifest.xml from https://github.com/tableau/connector-plugin-sdk/blob/master/samples/plugins/postgres_jdbc/manifest.xml and replaced it with mine however it still doesn’t show “PostgreSQL JDBC” in the Connectors list.

Please suggest

aiguofer commented 9 months ago

I run it with -DDisableVerifyConnectorPluginSignature=true as well.

ross8886 commented 9 months ago

Thank you. I just tried this as well. Still no luck. Also its just the raw files and not a packaged taco file.

aiguofer commented 9 months ago

There's likely an error with one of the files then. You could grep the logs for your connector class name:

grep "<your_connector_class_name>" /Users/$USER/Documents/My\ Tableau\ Repository/Logs/log.txt
pvanderknyff commented 9 months ago

aiguofer is correct, your logs will show the exact reason why the connector is not loading. It's usually a simple XML error that means Tableau can't load the connector, usually easy to fix.

However, I think I know what the issue is here.

You said the following in your question:

I have a set of code files (manifest.xml, dialect.tdd and other connector files) placed in “C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Tableau Repository\Connectors” folder.

You've got the command line argument for loading unpcakcaged connectors correct it looks like, otherwise we wouldn't load any unpackaged connectors. However, it's ambiguous to me from the quote if the connector files are placed loose in the Connectors folder, or placed in their own subdirectory. The DConnectPluginsPath argument points to the directory containing the directories that contain the connector files. (Docs here)

Confirm that your directory structure looks like this (for the sample connector): C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Tableau Repository\Connectors\postgres_jdbc\manifest.xml and not this: C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Tableau Repository\Connectors\manifest.xml

Let me know if you still have any questions.