1. Curator Styles

    2. Homepage

    3. Titles and Toolbars

    4. Group Overrides

    1. Pages Overview

    2. Tiles

    3. Error Pages

    4. SSRS Embedding

    5. Explorer

    6. User Customized Metrics

    7. Box Embedding

    8. Forms

    9. Blogs

    1. Tutorials

    2. Search

    3. Managing Menus

    4. Menu Items

    5. Keywords

    6. Files

    7. Notices

    8. Loading Screens

    1. Embedded Tableau Server Views

    2. Thumbnails

    3. Tagged Workbooks

    4. Favorites

    5. Email Subscriptions

    6. Data Export

    7. Download Workbook

    8. Share Workbook

    9. Custom Views

    10. Pause/Resume Changes

    11. Dashboard Titles

    1. Filters

    2. Parameters

    3. Apply Button

    4. Filter Categories

    5. Hidden Sticky Filters/Parameters

    6. Specify Filter Sheet

    7. Mark Commenting

    8. URL Action Overrides (Link Target)

    9. Hidden Dashboards

    10. Replace Dashboard URLs

    11. Site Switcher

    12. Cache Filter/Parameter Options

    1. Data Manager Basics

    2. Web Data Connector (WDC)

    3. Import Data

    4. Connecting to Data Manager

    5. User Commenting

    6. Field Calculations

    1. Overview and Enabling

    2. Report Builder: Scheduled Reports Option

    3. Report Builder: Email Option

    4. Report Builder: Watermark Text

    1. Automatic License Provisioning

    2. Just-in-time (JIT) Provisioning

    3. Users and Groups

    4. Reset User's Password

    5. Username Mapping

    6. User Sync and Membership Sync Overview

    7. Custom Attributes

    1. Frontend User Permissions

    2. Password Change

    3. Password Reset

    4. Password Expiration and Complexity

    5. Bypass Link-preview Security

    1. E-mail Configuration

    2. System Notifications

    1. Force SSL

    2. Trusted Tickets

    3. Basic HTTP Authentication

    1. Import / Export

    2. Backend Users

    3. Frontend Users

    4. Updating License Key

    5. Linux: Cron Troubleshooting

    6. Filesystem Permissions

    7. Backend Administrator Password Reset

    8. Manual Restoration of Curator Backup

    9. Updating Curator Logging

    10. Third Party Cookies

    11. Troubleshooting Load Times

    12. Tableau API Debugging

    13. Curator Backup

    14. Taking a Manual Full Backup

    1. System Upgrade

    2. Disable Curator Upgrades

    3. Offline Upgrades (Airgapped)

    4. Dependency Updates

    5. Troubleshooting Upgrades

    1. Scripts

    2. Commands

    3. Subscription Routing

    1. Curator API Overview

    2. Integration

    3. Curator API

    4. Tableau API

    5. Content

    6. User API

    Setup: Authentication

    Authentication Methods Overview

    When using Curator to embed content from other applications (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI) Curator relies on those systems to authorize a user to see and interact with content that is embedded in Curator.

    By default, Curator is set up to "pass through" this task to embedded content, and has no Authentication system enabled. However, Curator can utilize the authentication systems that your embedded content also relies on. This creates a seamless browsing experience wherein Curator shows/hides content based on the source-system's permissions (rather than managing them inside Curator). Curator does not have mechanisms to grant users access to content that they do not have access to within the source-system itself.

    By setting up Curator's Authentication Type to match your source-systems authentication, you can more seamlessly manage access to content in one location: in the source-system itself. However, if you would like to manage content in Curator that does not contain source-system content (e.g. pages), you can restrict content based on Groups (either those retrieved from SAML or Tableau Server) through the restrict-access settings on the Menu system.

    Changing Authentication Settings

    Curator can use multiple different methods to authenticate users to the frontend. Each method may require additional setup, so be sure to check out the For details on each option see the descriptions at the bottom of this page.

    To set the authentication method:

    1. Login to the backend of your Curator instance (e.g. https://www.site.com/backend).
    2. Navigate to the Settings > Security > Authentication Settings section from the left-hand menu.
    3. In the General tab, select the desired authentication type and click the "Save" button.


    Authentication Type Options

    First things first, if you have not [enabled the Tableau Server REST API] (/page/kb?doc=Enabling%20the%20REST%20API) section for more information.connection, be sure to do that. Without that enabled, Pass-Through (aka Security Disabled) will be the only available option.

    Pass-Through (Security Disabled)
    This turns off authentication to the frontend and makes all links and pages public. The user is still required to authenticate directly to the Tableau Server for any underlying views in a dashboard which requires a login.

    Active Directory
    Users authenticate seamlessly with Microsoft Active Directory. See details on setting up Active Directory Users.

    SAML
    This allows user accounts to authenticate using your SAML Identity Provider (IdP). Follow these instructions to learn how to set up Curator to use SAML as your IdP.

    OAuth/OpenID
    This allows user accounts to authenticate using your OAuth provider.

    Tableau Server
    This allows user accounts to authenticate directly with a Tableau Server using their local Tableau Server username and password.

    Curator Users
    This allows users to be created and stored locally on the site. For Tableau Online customers you can use Curator as your SAML Host (IdP), in which case you would set up your Tableau Server to look at the portal for SAML authentication.