Tableau Server 9 fix Search & Browse process

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:

tableau

Now at the end of this screen you will find this option:

search

When you click this option, it will propmt you whit an error, so what you have to do here is:

  1. Stop the Server
  2. Go to Windows CLI (CMD)
  3. Go to Tableau “bin” directory
  4. Execute –> C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Server\9.1\bin>tabadmin reindex
  5. 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.

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