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WorkFusion Analytics license

After you install WorkFusion Analytics Server or WorkFusion Analytics Desktop, you will need to activate your product.

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To complete activation process, you need your WorkFusion Analytics Server and Desktop product keys.

Activate on computer with Internet access

WorkFusion Analytics Server

1. Select Activate the product.

2. Enter or paste your product key and click Activate.

3. Click Continue.

4. Enter the fields to register WorkFusion Analytics and click Register.

5. Restart Tableau Server after registration is complete.

WorkFusion Analytics Desktop

1. Start WorkFusion Analytics Desktop.

2. Enter or paste your product key and click Activate.

3. Click Continue.

4. Enter the fields to register WorkFusion Analytics and click Register.

Activate offline

Create and submit offline activation file

1. Select Activate the product.

2. Enter or paste your product key and click Activate.

3. When you are offline, WorkFusion Analytics cannot complete the activation, and it prompts you to save offline.tlq file that you can use for offline activation. Click Save.

4. Back in the Workfusion Analytics product, click Exit to close the Activate dialog box.

5. From a computer that has the Internet access, open a web browser and go to the Activation page on the Tableau website.

6. Complete the instructions on the Activation page to submit your offline.tlq file, and then complete the procedure in one of the two following sections before closing the browser page.

Run activation file to complete activation for WorkFusion Analytics Server

After you submit your offline.tlq file to the Activation page, a file called activation.tlf is created.

1. Save the activation.tlf file.

2. On the computer running WorkFusion Analytics Server, copy the activation.tlf file into the WorkFusion Analytics Server bin folder.

3. Open a command prompt as an administrator and navigate to the WorkFusion Analytics Server bin folder.

4. Run tabadmin stop to stop all WorkFusion Analytics Server processes.

5. Run the command tabadmin activate --tlf activation.tlf. This step may take a few minutes to complete.

   The following steps are only necessary if you are prompted a second time to activate WorkFusion Analytics Server. This happens when you are activating an offline computer that has never had an activated WorkFusion Analytics license on it.

   If prompted to activate again, do the following:

   1. Repeat the procedure in the Create and submit offline activation file section above to create a second offline.tlq file.
   2. Repeat steps 1-5 in this section again, Run the activation file to complete activation for WorkFusion Analytics Server, to create a second activation.tlf and initialize the product key again.

6. Run the tabadmin start command to start all WorkFusion Analytics Server processes again. After this step you can close the Command Prompt.

7. Then, you need to register. Select Start > All Programs > Workfusion Analytics Server <version>.

8. Right-click Manage Product Keys and select Run as Administrator. Even if you are logged into the Tableau Server computer as an administrator, you need to do this to avoid a potential registration error.

9. Enter the required information in the registration dialog box to complete activation.

Run activation file to complete activation for WorkFusion Analytics Desktop

After you submit your offline.tlq file to the Activation page, a file called activation.tlf is created.

1. Save the activation.tlf file and move it to the computer on which you installed WorkFusion Analytics Desktop.
2. Double-click the activation.tlf file to activate the product. Your offline activation is complete, and you can begin using the product.
3. After starting WorkFusion Analytics Desktop enter the values in fields in registration form and click Register.