# How to customise the discover pane during a scripted install in Tableau Desktop 2020.1

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2020-03-09
- **Format:** Video · 7 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Tool strategy, Productivity
- **Tools:** Tableau (desktop, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-customise-the-discover-pane-during-a-scripted-install-in-tableau-desktop-2020-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/uH1dc-O5_5E

I show how to customise the Discover pane in Tableau Desktop 2020.1 by passing a setting during a scripted command-line installation. Using PowerShell on Windows, I walk through the install script, the key arguments, and demonstrate the Discover pane loading a custom web page once Tableau opens.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 2020.1 lets you replace the default Discover pane content with a custom web page, ideal for status updates or server downtime notices across many users
- You can set the Discover pane either after installation or, more efficiently, during a scripted command-line install pushed out by IT
- Key install arguments include a quiet-install flag, a no-restart option, accepting the EULA, and the setting that defines the Discover pane URL
- A license-reporting argument can ping a Tableau Server so admins can track who is using fixed license keys and manage rotation
- Navigate to the folder containing the installer, then run the install file with your chosen arguments to apply all settings at once

## Chapters

- 0:00 What the Discover pane is
- 0:32 Why customise it for large deployments
- 0:51 Installing via the command line
- 2:36 Walking through the install script
- 4:23 Running the install in PowerShell
- 5:53 Result: custom Discover pane

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-customise-the-discover-pane-during-a-scripted-install-in-tableau-desktop-2020-1

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