During this week we have receive an incredible and very intense training in Tableau Server by Jonathan MacDonald, so my last tip of the week it’s going to be related with Tableau Server.
The tip is to customize Tableau Server’s look and feel by changing the display logo and the display name. The name will appear in a tooltip when you hover over the home logo in the upper left corner of Tableau’s Server webpage. The customized logo will appear in this same corner and on the sign-in screen.
To change the tooltips name you just need to follow this three steps:
- Open a command prompt in your server as an administrator and type cd “C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\9.0\bin”
- Then type tabadmin customize name “customized name” replacing “customized name” with the text you want to appear like your company name.
- Restart the server for the change to take effect typing tabadmin restart.
To change the logo image, you have to follow also three steps:
- Open a command prompt in your server as an administrator and type cd “C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\9.0\bin”
- Then type tabadmin customize logo “C:\My Pictures\Logo.png” indicating the folder where you have the image. The image must have a maximum of 160 x 160 pixels if you don’t want it to be clipped and the valid formats are GIF, PNG and JPEG.
- Restart the server for the change to take effect typing tabadmin restart.
And now you have your customized log-in page and server page:
You can find this and many other Tableau Server interesting tips in the Tableau Server Administrator Guide.