How to create sets in web edit with

0:00Hey, it's Tim here. And in 2020.3, Tableau

0:05continues to push forward its advances to

0:08create feature parity between WebEdit and

0:10desktop by adding the ability to create

0:13sets

0:13in the browser. Let me show you how that

0:15works. You can see here that I'm in the Ask

0:18Data

0:18interface. And what I'm going to do is

0:20instead of going to Ask Data, I'm going to

0:21hit this

0:22option to create a new workbook. That hops

0:25me straight into the WebEdit instance. Now,

0:28in this setup, I've pretty much got most of

0:30the interface that I'd expect to see in

0:31desktop,

0:32but it's always lagged a little bit behind

0:34its desktop counterpart. And so what you

0:36can

0:36now do is if you right click any particular

0:38field and go to the Create option, you'll

0:40see here that there's a new option to

0:42create a set. Let me just highlight that

0:45for you.

0:45Now that lets you create a set. And when we

0:47click on that, Tableau goes ahead and

0:49creates

0:49the set right here in the data pane. But

0:52unlike in desktop, you don't have the

0:54ability to

0:55edit the set just yet. If I right click on

0:56it, you'll see that there's no option here

0:58to edit the set whatsoever. The other thing

1:01I could do is show the set, but you can

1:02also

1:02see that that's also hidden. So in order to

1:05get this to work, we're going to need to do

1:07something a little bit different compared

1:09to desktop. To show you, I'm going to go

1:11ahead

1:11and build the view. I'm going to drag

1:13region onto columns, and I'm going to drag

1:15cells

1:16onto rows. Now, one little tip. If you're

1:18demoing Tableau, they always teach you not

1:20to bring in dimension first. They actually

1:22always say to bring in the rows first so

1:24that

1:24you don't get this funny instance where you

1:26get ABC in the view because that sort of

1:28confuses

1:28a lot of new users. So that's just a little

1:30tip. I fell there myself. So let's drag

1:33cells

1:33onto rows and then region onto columns. And

1:37then what we're going to do is we're going

1:38to bring the set onto the canvas. And by

1:40doing this, it allows us to enable the

1:42option to

1:43show the set. So let's drag region set onto

1:45detail. This is my default place to go to

1:48whenever. I'm not sure where to put

1:49something. I put it on detail, and then I

1:51start working

1:52with it from there. If I hit this little

1:54dropdown, you'll see here that I now have

1:57the ability

1:58to show the set. Let me just highlight that

2:00for you. So you can see here I have the

2:01ability

2:02to show the set. So let's hit that. And on

2:06the right-hand side, you can now see that

2:08I'm moving over here to the right-hand side

2:10of my screen. I now have the set controls.

2:12So now I can add items to my set. So let's

2:15hit central and east. Now we've added them

2:17to our set. It's pretty much enabled. But

2:20because we haven't put our set onto

2:22anything

2:23in the marks pane, we just put it onto

2:25detail, it's not actually changing the

2:27context. So

2:28if we drag it onto color or add it to the

2:30color pane, now we get to see our control

2:33working in real time. And now you can see

2:36we're now creating the set dynamically. So

2:38the set control allows us to basically

2:40control what's in the set. And once that's

2:43done, you

2:43can now work with it in Web Edit. So this

2:45is a nice little feature because sets is

2:47such

2:47a basic feature that we use in Tableau

2:49Desktop a lot of the time. And to not have

2:51it in Web

2:51Edit makes it sort of a lesser citizen in

2:55some sense. It's great to finally see this.

2:58It's not quite got the same power and

3:00capabilities you have with things like set

3:02actions, but

3:03I figure Tableau is getting there. And

3:05eventually, they'll be pretty much one for

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