0:00Hey, Sam here. In this video, we're going
0:02to be talking about, I think a really
0:04interesting
0:04change to Tableau desktop that's come from
0:07web edit. Let's get stuck into this. So
0:10here, I have
0:11a version of Tableau, it's actually the
0:13previous version 21.2. And I've just loaded
0:16up the default
0:17dashboard. If you're wondering where this
0:19is, you can actually go over here to the
0:20bottom and just
0:21select this first one Superstore sales, and
0:23open that up. And essentially, you'll get
0:26this dashboard
0:27here. Now, what's interesting in this
0:29release is that Tableau say they've updated
0:31the action
0:32interface to match the web version. So
0:34essentially, what they've done is they've
0:37brought the web
0:37version of the feature and brought it into
0:39desktop. And what that means is that it has
0:42to have the same
0:43feature parity, because you can't put
0:45something in desktop and take features away
0:47. So this is sort of,
0:48I think, a really interesting change. I go
0:50to dashboard here and actions, I'm on the
0:52Mac,
0:53admittedly. So this is what the old action
0:55interface used to look like. This is how it
0:57's
0:57always looked like on a Mac. Now,
0:59admittedly, I'm not going from Mac to Mac
1:01here, I'm not going from
1:03Windows to Windows, I don't have the setup
1:06correctly across the same machine, I'm
1:08having
1:09to switch between Windows and Mac, it's a
1:11long story, let's not get into it. But
1:13nevertheless,
1:13this is the old interface, and you go to
1:15add an action, you get this pop up, it's
1:16actually been
1:17the same in desktop, it's slightly
1:19different, slightly less polished, because
1:21the Windows
1:22version has Windows sort of toolbars here.
1:24But if I go over to this one, this is
1:26actually running 21.3.
1:28And essentially, what's happening here is
1:31that both of the Mac and the Windows
1:32version has exactly the
1:34same setup as what we see in Web Edit. So
1:36let's go down here, go to actions. And you
1:39'll see that this
1:40actually has a new feature, someone's
1:42sending me a message because they're so
1:43excited about this.
1:44But nevertheless, you can see this now has
1:47the same version as Web Edit from Web
1:48Authoring. So
1:49that's really it. It's not really much of a
1:51quality of life improvement. It's just a
1:52change. But I
1:53think it's an important one, because it
1:55tells you that they're getting even closer
1:57to getting
1:58desktop with feature parity with Web Edit.
2:00And this is one of those things, actions
2:02and faces,
2:03which is one of those things that people
2:05have to have. Now, we're not done there yet
2:07. Because of
2:08course, this is great. We've got a feature
2:10coming over from Web Edit to desktop. What
2:12about features
2:13coming from desktop to Web Edit? Well, that
2:16's also happening too. Let's go over to
2:18Tableau Online,
2:19let's just open this up. And you can see
2:21here that I've actually got a very sort of
2:23nice view.
2:23Let's go to my homepage actually, and we'll
2:26open up this Superstore workbook again. But
2:28now we're
2:28going to do it in Web Edit. Let's go into
2:31this. And what we'll see here is some
2:34changes essentially.
2:35And what is great about this new feature is
2:38they've actually updated the filtering
2:40dialog box
2:41to have the same features as desktop. So
2:44now the filter dialog is the same on
2:46desktop,
2:47and on Web Edit. So let's go in here. And
2:50essentially, if we go into any of these
2:52sheets,
2:52and just bring up the filter dialog, we
2:54have the full set of features that we're
2:56used to. So let's
2:57just open this region filter, click to edit
3:00fields filter. And you'll actually see that
3:02we have the
3:03same sort of functionality. Now it looks
3:05slightly different. I'm not gonna lie, this
3:07does look a
3:07little bit different to what I'm used to.
3:09But essentially, all the sections are there
3:11. We've
3:12got the wildcard, the conditions, the top
3:14and bottom. And as you click on each of
3:16these,
3:16they obviously expand. And we've also got
3:18our summary here on the bottom left hand
3:20side. So
3:21that's really nice to see. If I go to the
3:23Mac version here, and I'm actually I'm just
3:25on the
3:26Mac version, let me close this action
3:27window down. So we go back to this, let's
3:29go to the same chart,
3:31and actually make sure that all the
3:32features are there. It's exactly the same
3:34chart. And you can
3:34see that this is still using the old style
3:37design. So my guess is that in the next
3:39release, we'll
3:40ditch this design, and we'll switch over to
3:43the web edit version a little later on. So
3:45all the
3:46same features are here. And again, if I go
3:48to web edit here, you can see that all the
3:50same capabilities
3:51are there. Okay, so this is really nice to
3:54see. I like that this is picking up pace.
3:57There's really
3:57some momentum on this web edit train. And
4:00guys, I think very soon, you'll be able to
4:02just use Tableau
4:04in the browser. No holes bars, we are
4:05getting closer. I've been singing about
4:07this for a year,
4:08but we're really getting there. I don't
4:09know why I'm excited. Maybe it's because
4:11people won't have
4:12to wait days to get a license key to
4:13install Tableau. But also maybe because it
4:16will change
4:16some paradigms it feels to me like they can
4:19do more with web edit and the browser
4:21technology
4:22than they can with software, especially
4:24given now that they're part of Salesforce
4:26now they have to
4:26sort of integrate with many web
4:28technologies anyway. And now that cloud
4:30computing is pretty
4:31normal, the web might actually be the best
4:33place for Tableau to be developing their
4:35features. So
4:36thanks for watching. If you've enjoyed this
4:38video, be sure to check out all the other
4:39videos on
4:40Tableau Tim.com. I have a whole playlist
4:42for this release and previous releases as
4:44well. You can
4:45check out and of course, be sure to let me
4:47know if you liked this video. Let me know
4:49in the comments
4:50and I'll catch you in the next video. Trans
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