How to customise the discover pane post installation in Tableau Desktop 2020.1

0:00Hey, it's Tim here.

0:04And in today's video, I'm going to be

0:05taking you through how to change the

0:07Discover pane

0:08once you've already installed Tableau and

0:10maybe set a Discover pane previously.

0:13In the previous video, I showed you how to

0:15change this Discover pane.

0:16Here I've changed it to Google.com.

0:17So you can see it's not optimized for this

0:19amount of space.

0:21But what we're going to do is change the

0:23setting in Windows.

0:25In order to do that, you just need to open

0:28the registry for your computer.

0:30And so in order to do this, you will need

0:33to have admin rights.

0:34This video is probably geared towards

0:36computer admins who manage a lot of

0:38machines and can

0:39push registry updates over the network to

0:42lots of machines and change this for lots

0:45of users at once.

0:46In order to get to the registry, I'm just

0:49going to run the Windows R. This will allow

0:50me to get to this little shortcut here.

0:53Just type in regedit, and that will open up

0:55the registry settings.

0:57This is a very dangerous place to be on a

0:59machine.

0:59So only open this if you know what you're

1:01doing.

1:02Now you'll see here I've already got this

1:04open to the relevant hierarchy.

1:06What you essentially need to do is open up

1:09this folder, local machine.

1:12Go to your software folder and go all the

1:14way down to Tableau.

1:15And then you'll see that there's multiple

1:17folders in the Tableau directory.

1:19Go to the version of Tableau in which you

1:21want to change the Discover Pane URL.

1:23And then you'll see here that if you've

1:25changed it before, you'll actually already

1:27have this

1:28Discover Pane category.

1:30But if you haven't, you just need to right

1:32click on the folder, create new, set up a

1:35new key, and then you can set the Discover

1:37Pane here.

1:38But as I've said before, I've already done

1:40this, so I don't need to create another one

1:42.

1:42So I'll just go ahead and delete that

1:44particular entry.

1:45I'll go to this Discover Pane option, and

1:48you can see here that it's set to Google.

1:50com,

1:50which is what I showed you earlier.

1:52And so what I'm going to do, I'm just going

1:54to modify this setting by right clicking

1:55the

1:56name and hitting Modify.

1:57And then here we can change it to another

2:00URL.

2:01Now I'm just going to set this to the Table

2:03au blog.

2:03So I'm just going to find the Tableau blog.

2:07Typically just Google that.

2:08And then we're just going to grab this URL.

2:10I'm going to copy that, minimize this, and

2:12then we're going to paste this in here.

2:15Now that we've done that, we hit OK.

2:17And now that's basically applied.

2:19When we close this window, that registry

2:22change has been applied.

2:24And now when we open the software again,

2:27you'll see that the right hand side has

2:31changed to

2:32the Tableau blog.

2:33So this is how you change the Discover Pane

2:36once you've already installed Tableau on a

2:39machine and maybe even changed the Discover

2:41Pane previously.

2:42This is a great technique for admins who

2:44control lots of machines with Tableau

2:46software installed.

2:48It can also maybe be done at the same time

2:49when Tableau is installed so that users

2:51automatically

2:52get the correct Discover Pane settings when

2:55the software is installed.

2:58Check out my other video for how to do that

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