What should you do to disable table recommendations for popular data sources and tables to users?

Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud administrators can control recommendation features on a per-site basis. The site's Settings page contains options to selectively enable or disable different types of recommendations, including those for views, data sources, and tables/databases. To disable table recommendations specifically, a site administrator would navigate to the General tab of the site's Settings page and uncheck the corresponding option under the "Recommendations" section. This provides granular control over the user discovery experience within that specific site.

B. Use the command: tsm configuration set -k recommendations.enabled -v false

This command disables all recommendation features for the entire Tableau Server instance, which is a more drastic, server-level action than disabling a specific type of recommendation for a site.

C. Publish data sources only to projects with permissions locked to the project

This is a permissions strategy that limits data source visibility. While it would indirectly affect recommendations, it does not disable the recommendation feature itself.

D. Disable the option using the server Settings page

This specific setting is configured within the settings of an individual site, not on a global server settings page within the Tableau Server user interface.

1. Tableau Server Help, "Set Up for Recommendations": This official documentation page explicitly details the procedure for managing recommendations. It states, "To show or hide recommendations on a site: Go to the Settings page for the site. On the General tab, under Recommendations, clear or select the check boxes for the types of recommendations you want to show." The types listed include "Recommended table and database connections."

Source: Tableau Server Documentation, https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/recommendationsadmin.htm

2. Tableau Server Help, "tsm configuration set Options": This document lists and describes the keys available for server-wide configuration using the Tableau Services Manager (TSM). It includes the recommendations.enabled key, confirming it is a server-level setting that "Enables or disables all recommendations," which contrasts with the site-level control mentioned in the question.

Source: Tableau Server Documentation, https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/configref.htm (Search for recommendations.enabled within the page).