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# Run Your Under Development Connector in Tableau Desktop
- URL: https://www.vizney.com/run-your-under-development-connector-in-tableau-desktop/
- Published: 2025-03-04T03:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-04T03:21:51.000Z
- Description: This guide explains how to run Tableau Desktop without signature verification while developing a Tableau connector for a new data source.
- Author: Yehwan Hwang
- Tags: Knowledge Base

When developing a Tableau connector, the TACO file must be signed using `jarsigner` before execution. However, during development and testing, you may need to run an unsigned TACO file. Here are three ways to disable signature verification and run Tableau Desktop in such cases.

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### **Method 1\. Running via CLI**

1. Open the command prompt.
2. Navigate to the Tableau Desktop installation path and run `tableau.exe` with the signature verification disable option.  
    
`tableau.exe **-DDisableVerifyConnectorPluginSignature=true**`

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6a/50/6a50f03c-1922-4e90-bf18-c5abd0f819d4/content/images/2025/03/Run-tableau.png)

### **Method 2\. Creating a Shortcut**

1. Right-click on the desktop or in File Explorer and select **`New → Shortcut`**.
2. Specify the Tableau Desktop installation path and append the signature verification disable option to create the shortcut.  
    
`*<Install Path>*\bin\tableau.exe **-DDisableVerifyConnectorPluginSignature=true**`

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6a/50/6a50f03c-1922-4e90-bf18-c5abd0f819d4/content/images/2025/03/Create-shortcut.png)

### **Method 3\. Modifying the Registry**

1. Open the Windows Registry Editor.
2. Add the signature verification disable option to the **value data** of the two registry paths associated with `.twb` and `.twbx` file extensions.
- `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Tableau.Workbook.2\shell\open\command`
- `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Tableau.PackagedWorkbook.2\shell\open\command`

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6a/50/6a50f03c-1922-4e90-bf18-c5abd0f819d4/content/images/2025/03/Edit-regedit.png)

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