How good it will be if you can simply drag and drop a flow file to run it? Actually it can be achieved with a single line BAT file.

Drag and Drop to Run a Flow File

 

How to achieve this? Here is the code inside FlowRunner.BAT file

call  "C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau Prep 2018.3\scripts\tableau-prep-cli.bat" -t "%~1"
pause

 

Explanation:

Please note that line 2 is optional and it is not required if you do not want to review the information on terminal.

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