Tableau 2020.2: Improved data discovery

0:00Hey, it's Tim here. And in this video, I'm

0:02going to be taking you through a new

0:03feature in Tableau

0:042020.2 where Tableau have made it much

0:07easier to navigate data sources hosted in

0:10Tableau Server,

0:11or when you're using WebEdit, the data

0:13sources that are available there. Okay, so

0:15let's have a

0:16look and see how that feature works. Well,

0:18the first thing we need to do is to connect

0:20to a

0:21Tableau Server. Okay. And so we're going to

0:23search for data here at the top, you can

0:25see it's this

0:25very top option. If I just zoom in again

0:27here to Tableau Server, you'll see it's

0:29that particular

0:30option there. And so now let's have a click

0:32on that. And you'll see you'll get this

0:34interface.

0:35Now, I don't have many data sources on my

0:38test environment. But what you'll notice is

0:41you have

0:41an improved filtering capability just here

0:44on the right hand side. So I can even

0:46filter for certified

0:47or uncertified data sources, connection

0:50types based on databases, and a few other

0:53sort of

0:53really cool options that makes it much

0:55easier if say you're in an organization

0:57with hundreds of

0:58published data sources, you also get the

1:00ability to preview how many times it's been

1:02used. But

1:03essentially, this interface works really,

1:05really well to speed up the ability to find

1:08those data

1:08sources, then connect to them directly

1:10inside of Tableau. Now, the thing to also

1:13bear in mind is

1:13this is available through WebEdit. I'm just

1:15going to open up my browser here so you can

1:17see what I

1:18mean. So if I just open up the correct

1:20window this time around, let's have a look

1:23at this. Yeah,

1:24we open up Tableau Online. And you can see

1:26here that I've got a basically a standard

1:28landing page

1:29for most Tableau Online or Tableau Service

1:32with my favorites and my recent below. If I

1:34go to new

1:35here on the right hand side, okay, and I

1:38create a new workbook, I actually hop

1:40straight into the

1:42WebEdit interface. And because I haven't

1:44connected to anything, I need to now

1:46connect to a data

1:47source. And so Tableau will automatically

1:49open the same window we've just seen in

1:51Tableau Desktop,

1:52but here in WebEdit. And again, you get the

1:55same capabilities to filter by data types

1:58or by

1:58certified data sources in this specific

2:00case, or you can obviously just use search.

2:02And this will

2:03return sort of search results back to you

2:06as before. So the same feature here on Web

2:09Edit,

2:09and the same feature here on Tableau

2:11Desktop, they're virtually identical. Okay,

2:13that's pretty

2:14much it in a nutshell. That's the quality

2:16of life improvement in most cases. Okay, so

2:18thanks for

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2:22Otherwise,

2:22I'll catch you in the next video.