TabValidate is meant to be a simple script base to help you perform checks on your Tableau workbooks to validate them against your standards. All checks are done using either Tableau REST API 2019.1+ (https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/api/rest_api/en-us/help.htm#REST/rest_api.htm ) or XML scrapping of the workbook.

The scripts are Python 2.7 and 3.x compatible. The following are the modules needed for the scripts to run:

• pip install tableauserverclient
• pip install lxml
• pip install pyyaml
• pip install slackclient - Optional

In order to run any of the scripts you can specify the path of the config.yml file. Otherwise it will default to the local folder.

python workbook_best_practice_checks.py --config-file config.yml

For a sample use case and more ideas on how to use these script please visit the blog on https://community.tableau.com/docs/DOC-24078