Installing Tableau Server 9 is a stray forward process but sometimes some process fail, this time i will tell you how to fix the Search & Browse process (searchserver.exe) when you finish installing Tableau Server and you login to via browser to localhost you find yourself whit this screen:
Now at the end of this screen you will find this option:
When you click this option, it will propmt you whit an error, so what you have to do here is:
- Stop the Server
- Go to Windows CLI (CMD)
- Go to Tableau “bin” directory
- Execute –> C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\9.1\bin>tabadmin reindex
- When finish put the server back online again.
And that will be it, you are done, quick and easy. Hope it works for you. see you later alligator.