Tableau 8.2 with Bigquery, how to do automatic authentication refresh?

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Tableau 8.2 desktop version. We refresh the dashboard every 4 minutes(with AutoIt script to actually execute click and F5), but every around half an hour, it pops up this dialogue requesting a manual activation of bigquery authentication. How could we avoid this issue? We need this refreshing all automatically all the time.

Invalide username or password

Solved I originally used 8.2.0 desktop version. This issue was solved by upgrading it to 8.2.3 desktop version. Thank all of you for help.

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google-bigquerytableau-api
are you the Tableau 8.2 developer? – Pentium10
I'm not doing any development on Tableau, just using tableau to build up statistic dashboard. Not sure if that's what you asked – foxwendy

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According to Tableau documentation you need Tableau Server for that:

Note: If you have not published your workbook or data source to a Tableau server, you are not able to embed OAuth credentials to bypass authentication and connect directly to the data. For information about using embedded OAuth credentials with published workbooks and data sources, see the next section, OAuth on Tableau Server, and the related topics.

BTW If you have Tableau Server, read this article for help on getting Oauth set up.