Tableau 2023.2 features announced | Coming soon

0:00Hey it's Tim here, the 23.2 coming soon

0:03page has just been released and we're right

0:05off the back of conference.

0:07So let's find out what made this release

0:08from conference. Let's get stuck in.

0:10Okay so whenever this page comes out I

0:12always like to preface the sort of

0:14messaging by saying look this is just what

0:16's been announced, the release is not out

0:17yet.

0:18But it's a pretty good indicator of what's

0:20going to be in the release.

0:22The other thing to bear in mind is that not

0:24all the features actually make this page,

0:26there are some features that are sort of

0:28small print when the release actually comes

0:30out.

0:31So we're going to wait for the Tableau

0:32release navigator, I've already made a

0:34video about that, that goes into the detail

0:36for each release showing what's changed,

0:38what's new and what's getting updated for

0:40all the platforms.

0:41Now because this is 23.2, 23.1 was the

0:44server and cloud update, this is just going

0:46to be the cloud update so there won't be

0:48these features available in Tableau server

0:50just yet.

0:51They'll come in the next release 23.3 but

0:54nonetheless let's get stuck into these

0:56features and find out what's new.

0:58So during conference we did have a little

1:01bit of a showcase of some of the new chart

1:05types.

1:06One that we didn't see on stage was

1:07actually this, the ability to change lines

1:10to now have patterns.

1:12So we have the ability to do dotted lines

1:14and well two types of dotted lines, it

1:16seems like there's one with slightly less

1:18gaps and one with a lot more gaps.

1:21I don't know how to describe that, dashed

1:22and dotted lines I guess is the official

1:24term.

1:25So if we look at this, line patterns offer

1:27new styling capabilities allowing an author

1:29to select any trend line to be represented

1:32as a solid or dashed or dotted lines,

1:34exactly that.

1:35This new capability makes it easy to convey

1:37nuance when representing multiple trends.

1:40Pretty simple, pretty standard, long

1:41overdue, it's one of those ones that's been

1:43on the to-do list I'm sure for a long while

1:47over in the community forums as well so

1:49good to see that here.

1:50Multi row calculations in Tableau prep,

1:52this is actually quite nice, this is one of

1:54those features that actually you don't

1:56realise how useful it is until you start

1:59using it.

2:00I've been using multi row calcs in Alteryx

2:02for years, I just can't live without it

2:04when you're doing data prep, it's just such

2:06an easy way of getting around problems.

2:08Sometimes when you're doing computations

2:10like averages and sums, multi row

2:12calculations are how you bake in things

2:14like moving averages and running totals

2:16into a dataset so you can then create

2:18analytical numerical numbers much easier in

2:21Tableau.

2:22Think of it as a way of taking out table

2:24calcs from the table calculation

2:26capabilities in Tableau and baking it into

2:28your data so you can have really performant

2:31datasets.

2:32I really like this feature and I also like

2:34the way Tableau prep is done, I have to say

2:36Tableau prep might not be as fully fledged

2:38as something like Alteryx but the features

2:40they keep adding, keep making it get closer

2:42and closer and the interface that they have

2:44in Tableau prep in my opinion is above none

2:48.

2:48I think very soon Tableau prep will be a

2:50very powerful tool going toe for toe with

2:52Alteryx but of course I'd say that on Table

2:55au too.

2:56Let's see what we can do with this, using

2:58clicks not code or complex calculations,

3:00hint hint, it's easier than ever to

3:03calculate difference from percent

3:05difference from and moving calculations.

3:08You can also write lookup calculations in

3:10the expressions of Tableau prep so that's

3:12quite good.

3:13And hopefully with some of the Tableau GPT

3:15stuff coming out in the future we can write

3:17those even faster, we might have to write

3:20them at all.

3:21Personal access tokens admin controls, now

3:23this was actually announced at Tableau

3:24conference, I didn't end up covering Table

3:26au server content for that because a lot of

3:28it is coming out here and Tableau cloud is

3:30kind of weird in that sense.

3:32So what I wanted to do is actually just

3:33wait for the release and we will actually

3:35see what's in this release but also have

3:36the other features when they get announced

3:38just covering them then.

3:40So personal access tokens admin control,

3:43essentially what's happening here is that

3:46admins are getting the ability to more

3:48finally control personal access tokens. Now

3:52personal access tokens were a new, think of

3:53it as a way of authenticating an

3:54application by giving them essentially a

3:56secret and a key.

3:57And that secret and keys, I've got I never

3:59get this terminology right but long story

4:01short, you go into Tableau server or Table

4:03au cloud you get a personal access token,

4:05essentially a really long number.

4:08You can only see it once so once you've

4:09seen it, you're never shown that number

4:11again, you put that into an application.

4:14The idea is that you don't save that

4:15anywhere in any notebook you just put it in

4:16the application and once you put it in the

4:18application.

4:19That's it. The only two things that know

4:21what that key is is the application and

4:23tablet, and then they can communicate and

4:25work with each other happily. But the thing

4:27is that these expire and also in the past,

4:29admins haven't been able to create them and

4:32sort of put restrictions around them and so

4:34that's what this is essentially doing as a

4:36few changes to Tableau cloud.

4:37Tableau cloud site. So admins can now

4:40control who has the ability to create pats

4:43personal access tokens. So admins can now

4:46control how long pats are valid, ranging

4:48from one to 365 days essentially a year.

4:52Changing for Tableau cloud sites we

4:54conclude after 23.2 pats are disabled by

4:57default and default expiry of pats shorten

4:59to 180 days so they're changing some

5:02default and then changing the way certain

5:04things work, but fundamentally.

5:07Site admins can now control who has the

5:10ability to create pats and site admins can

5:13also now control how long pats are valid,

5:16ranging from one to 365 anyway that's a

5:19really nice features. I'm sure people who

5:22are using personal access tokens are

5:22probably appreciating this.

5:24You have to be in a very specific type of

5:25setting. It's not the kind of thing that I

5:27think everyone will come across or have the

5:30need of, but if you're using Tableau and

5:31partnership with other applications, it's

5:34absolutely necessary, but more importantly,

5:37you'll probably find third party tools

5:38asking you to create pats.

5:40So that's probably going to be the first

5:42instance where you come across pats where

5:44another application is requesting a pat so

5:47that it can do whatever it needs to do with

5:50Tableau based on your permissions and so

5:52this is going to be really useful. Let's go

5:55back to the next line.

5:55So this is the editable viz alt text. We

5:57did see this at conference on the keynote

5:59stage. This was the ability to edit the alt

6:02text for a visualization. So in essence,

6:05you can add a little bit of an

6:06accessibility hint that's created by

6:09someone and some organizations do actually

6:12have accessibility guidelines and how to

6:13describe charts and how to describe things

6:16that people are seeing.

6:17And so we can actually add some of that

6:18information into this in a way that

6:20standardized and sort of transparent across

6:22the organization. I see this as a huge step

6:24up because accessibility has been something

6:27that you know Tableau is really focused on

6:29and I think as they push more towards the

6:32web, that becomes even more important.

6:33And when you think of third party

6:34applications and other tools working with

6:36with Tableau, specifically screen readers

6:39in this instance, having this kind of

6:41information readily available means that

6:43Tableau can actually present this

6:45information to screen readers and other

6:47third party tools that read this kind of

6:49information much more readily and more sort

6:51of more performant and sort of more

6:54optimized as well. So that's something

6:55something nice to see.

6:57And unified tooltips. Now this is an

6:58interesting one. This is a borrowing a term

7:01that we've seen in charts, tooltips, and

7:03but it's actually not necessarily related

7:05to charts. So let's try and describe this.

7:06So what you can do in this sort of addition

7:10is when you hover over tooltips, when you

7:12hover over a pill, they used to call them

7:14or a calculation or something on the marks

7:17on columns or rows and shaft, you know,

7:19these calculations sort of pills you get in

7:21Tableau, when you hover over them, you have

7:24the ability to see

7:26quick information about that particular

7:28pill. Now, this is really handy, because

7:30when you've had a field that has an error,

7:32there's actually an example here on screen

7:34where you'll see there's a, if I click on

7:36it just here, you'll see it just coming up

7:37now there it is. And when you click on it,

7:40you see the error and it means you can go

7:42and fix the error without having to open

7:43the calculation, you can just go directly

7:44to the problem and fix it without having to

7:46open them. Also, when you hover over

7:48filters, it's nice to be able to see what

7:50filters are set. And if you've got any sort

7:52of complex sets, it's also nice to be able

7:54to get some quick information

7:55along with a calculation and how that works

7:57. But this I think this this feels like to

8:00me a bit of groundwork for something that's

8:03coming. And having this information be

8:06displayed and being visual suggests that

8:09there's something else coming in the future

8:11, that's going to need this level of sort of

8:13, you know, communication, essentially think

8:15of it as a way of talking to a user without

8:17having to ask them to go into something.

8:19And so that might be handy, when something

8:21about the way we work with calculations

8:23changes in the future.

8:24And some hints, we saw things like shared

8:26modeling on stage at Tableau conference. So

8:28that's not in this release, I don't believe

8:30. So maybe when those features come, they

8:32will be leaning on this kind of capability

8:34to save you having to go into calculations.

8:37So that's a super useful hint. There'll

8:39also be a few changes, I think, with the

8:40way search works in this particular release

8:42as well. So we'll be we'll be sort of

8:44messing around with Tableau a little bit

8:46more to kind of find out what those are.

8:48Anyway, that's a unified tooltips really,

8:50really nice. Salesforce data cloud

8:52connector.

8:53So Salesforce data cloud is super

8:55interesting. I didn't really realize this

8:58at the time, but it started off as Sales

9:00force marketing cloud or something, then it

9:02was branded as Gini. I think the Gini

9:04announcement was pretty big. And then it's

9:07now been sort of branded again, as Sales

9:09force data cloud, and the connector is

9:12essentially a new connector that's being

9:14brought into Tableau. And it essentially,

9:17you know, allows us to do what Francois was

9:19showing us on the keynote stage,

9:20essentially, to be able to do be able to do

9:22that.

9:22And it's essentially to be able to do be

9:23able to go from Salesforce data cloud

9:25directly into Tableau. But the interesting

9:27thing here is this is a connector. So it

9:29suggests that you can also instigate

9:31connection from Tableau itself. So let's

9:33have a read. Salesforce data cloud

9:34connector makes it seamless to analyze data

9:37from data cloud in Tableau. The data cloud

9:38connector is driverless, which means it

9:40doesn't need any installation or anything.

9:42And data spaces were enabling you to create

9:44visualization specific to a data space. So

9:46this is obviously Salesforce terminology, I

9:49don't know what a data space is.

9:51Data spaces are logical partitions to

9:53organize metadata, data and processes for

9:55relevant stakeholders in data cloud. It's a

9:57lot of data, a lot of data and data.

10:00Additionally, the data cloud connector

10:02shows object label instead of the object

10:05API name. Nice. object API name can be

10:08super frustrating when you're working with

10:10data in Tableau, because what people

10:11actually want is the object label. So that

10:14's, that's a nice little touch in the Table

10:16au connection UI. This creates a more user

10:19friendly experience when you're working

10:20with a data cloud.

10:20This is a nice little touch in the Tableau

10:21connection UI. This creates a more user

10:22friendly experience when you're working

10:23with a data source. This creates a more

10:24user friendly experience when choosing

10:25tables to build data sources. The connector

10:26also supports an additional 11 functions,

10:27including datetime functions, improving

10:29your content creation and data analysis

10:31process. I would love to know what those 11

10:33functions are and what you couldn't do

10:35before actually. So I have to dig into that

10:38documentation when it comes out. I'd be

10:41interested to see, I need to try Salesforce

10:43data cloud because they did sort of sell it

10:45as a good way of sort of stringing up

10:47datasets. And it's really only going to be

10:48a little bit more of a

10:49It's really only going to be valuable to

10:51someone who's using Salesforce. That's the

10:53only real use case I could think of. If you

10:55're using a lot of Salesforce, and you

10:56happen to have other data, and you want to

10:58bring it together, this will be a great

11:00tool. But if you're not using Salesforce, I

11:02'm still yet to be sort of compelled about

11:05getting this just this functionality to be

11:07able to bring other data sources from

11:09everywhere. After all, Tableau is a pretty

11:11agnostic platform as it were. So it's

11:14actually quite easy for you to stand up

11:16your own sort of instances and warehouse

11:18that kind of

11:18do all this, but you might not have as

11:20nicer interface and then my sort of as nice

11:23as setup. So that's something to sort of

11:25think about. Also, data engineering is a

11:27topic that's coming up a lot. So data

11:29engineering and this kind of capability

11:32might sort of be sort of butting heads a

11:34little bit. So be

11:34interested to see what this looks like once

11:37you actually get a handle on it and have a

11:39go. And Google Analytics connector for

11:41connect to event data from Google Analytics

11:43for property, the Google Analytics for

11:45connectors available in the tablet exchange

11:47. So I don't know if this is already

11:49available. Let's go have a look. Let's go

11:51have a look. Let's go say, Tableau exchange

11:55. And we might already have as I could just

12:00go to the connectors page here.

12:02Let's see if it's in here. Let's see Google

12:05Analytics for is already there. So this is

12:08already out. So we can already make a video

12:11about it and just say that it's out new in

12:1323.2. But it's already out anyway, Google

12:16Analytics for essentially Google change the

12:18the system Google Analytics system. And so

12:21this change had to happen. And to install

12:24this connector, you need to download this,

12:26it's a taco file. I don't know what taco

12:27stands for. But essentially, it's a taco

12:30file that you put into a specific directory

12:32, depending on

12:32whether you're on Mac, Windows, and the

12:35various locations. It's, it's, it's kind of

12:38annoying that you have to kind of do this.

12:40I mean, I have, I have Tableau prep and

12:43desktop. So I'm going to have to do at

12:45least these four steps. But yeah, if you if

12:48you have service, it's quite a bit of work

12:50to put the connector in the right place.

12:51But at least it's a one time activity. I'd

12:53be interested to know what updates are like

12:55, and actually works with 23.1. And later,

12:59so it won't work with older versions. Look

13:02from

13:022022. But it will work with the current

13:04release. So we can actually indeed try this

13:06. So I'll try this out and see what it's

13:07like. I've actually done a video on Google

13:09Analytics connector. So I'm going to have

13:11to update it. Because there's a new

13:13connector, and the Amazon s3 connector. Now

13:16this was actually really, really nice to

13:18hear a conference, it was announced is

13:20really good. What they talked about is the

13:22ability to connect to here parquet CSV and

13:25Excel file data in your s3 bucket. So

13:27essentially, if you have all these files in

13:29your s3 bucket, you can essentially query

13:31it without having

13:32to do anything to them. So it's available

13:34in Tableau cloud as well as a Tableau

13:36exchange. And I believe that is also right

13:38here. So this is a beta, it's actually

13:40labeled as a beta. So you can test it, I

13:42think it's actually been out, you know, in

13:46the wild for a little bit longer. And this

13:47is sort of the soft release, and then there

13:49'll be an official release when it comes out

13:51of beta. But essentially, this interesting

13:54thing is using Tableau's hyper technology

13:56to provide fast query performance to s3.

13:59And so in essence, you can put all your

14:01files

14:01there, you can even set up an automation to

14:03keep putting files to a specific bucket,

14:05then essentially Tableau is able to query

14:07that bucket without having to essentially

14:09sort of do anything. So that's, that's

14:12quite nice. Again, I have to try that same

14:14two videos already that I can make, which

14:15is going to be fantastic. Amazon Athena

14:18connector third party IDP. IDP stands for

14:22identity provider. Let's have a look at

14:24this. So use industry leading third party

14:27identity providers such as Azure ad or Okta

14:30to manage secure

14:31authentication to Amazon Athena data

14:33sources. So what this is essentially saying

14:35is, hey, look, if you're using Amazon

14:37Athena, and you use some of these

14:39authentication mechanisms, mechanisms, you

14:42're able to use that inside of Tableau

14:43sounds like previously you couldn't using

14:46the old configuration for an identity

14:48provider, you have increased flexibility

14:50and security of connections, along with

14:52multi factor authentication to important

14:54data in Athena. That sounds like a very

14:57specific use case. And it's not again,

15:00Amazon Athena is not

15:01something I've come across. So yeah, if you

15:03if you know why that's important, let me

15:05know in the comments and let me know how

15:06much time is going to save you as well.

15:08filter and sort in lineage. So the Tableau

15:10lineage capability is part of the data

15:12management add on is getting a little bit

15:14more of a sort of spruce. This is this has

15:18been one of those features that keeps

15:19getting nicer and nicer and nicer. And I

15:21think, you know, in two years time, you

15:22look back at this and the quality and the

15:24richness of this metadata tool will

15:26actually be quite good and quite useful. It

15:29's just a shame that not many people

15:30see it because it sits behind the data

15:32management add on, which you have to add on

15:35to your essentially total estate as it were

15:37, and it's charged not by the number of

15:39people who want to use it by as a

15:41percentage of your total usage and that

15:43percentage, you have to get in touch with

15:45Tableau to find out what it is, I think it

15:47moves around. So this feature is really

15:50nice, but unfortunately, not many people

15:52see it or use it. Nonetheless, the lineage

15:55page now has a search option. So you can

15:56now search for fields. There is also the

16:00option to

16:00sort by a number of downstream sheets. Both

16:03of these capabilities are especially useful

16:05when you have a large numbers of workbooks

16:07and data sources, and either one to quickly

16:09find a field of interest or identify fields

16:11that are used the most and proceed with the

16:14impact analysis for any potential changes.

16:16So think of this as like, it's just a UX

16:19user experience kind of a feature, the

16:21ability to search and saw the ability to

16:23sort of see information downstream and

16:27upstream, which is the terminology for how

16:28lineage works, essentially. So

16:30that's that's super useful. Omnibox

16:33integration with mixed content search. So

16:36this is interesting. So the Omnibox is when

16:38you've searched in Tableau server, the Omn

16:40ibox when you click into the search, and it

16:43comes up with like three items, and then

16:44three data sources, and then three work

16:46books, that's called the Omnibox. So you can

16:49kind of see it here that it's been

16:50integrated into this search area when you

16:53're searching for data. So you can actually

16:55start typing, and it brings up results. So

16:58Omnibox is a dialogue that provides a

17:00set of quick search functionalities,

17:02including recent search terms and content

17:04suggestions. To improve the data discovery

17:06experience, Omnibox has been integrated

17:08into the Connect to dialogue, the entry

17:10dialogue for users to search and connect to

17:12data sets. So it's a pretty straightforward

17:14, nice little addition that custom

17:18scheduling REST API methods, interesting.

17:21So leverage the new REST API custom

17:23scheduling methods to schedule your refres

17:25hes and subscriptions in Tableau cloud. So

17:27nice. So there's essentially an API API.

17:30Gosh, essentially an API to do custom

17:32scheduling through the REST API.

17:34Essentially a method when you talk about

17:36API APIs is a way of instructing the system

17:39to do something. So once you know how to

17:41use methods generally in an API, and when

17:43they add more methods, that's essentially

17:45adding more capability to the API to do

17:47certain things. In this case, it's to

17:50schedule refreshes and subscriptions. What

17:52that means is you could more sort of

17:54quickly change these schedules and refres

17:56hes and subscriptions as well. Because you

17:58're using an API, you can

18:00build something on top of it that kind of

18:02goes in and sets these up. So custom

18:04scheduling was previously only supported by

18:06the user interface. But now with API

18:08support, you can better support third party

18:10workflows, scripts and automation for your

18:12scheduling needs. So essentially, you could

18:15build, let's say, a tool that automatically

18:18creates a schedule for newly published

18:20content, if it has some sort of change

18:22request system. So let's say the end end

18:25user business wants to change a schedule

18:27for something. And the you know, the

18:29scheduling

18:30or the automation doesn't exist. This API

18:32could go and create that schedule for that

18:34business use case once it's approved

18:36without someone having to go in and

18:37manually does it's really nice. Nice touch.

18:40Virtual connections, additional connect

18:43support, virtual connections are still very

18:45interesting, very useful against it behind

18:47the data management add on. And they've got

18:49a few more data sets here Dreamio Cloudera

18:52Hadoop, IBM DB to kivios.

18:55Cool kubo presto man databases and data

18:57sources just have some of the weirdest

19:00names. I just don't know why they just can

19:02't call them simpler things. But anyway, new

19:06connector support for virtual connections.

19:09That's kind of a really nice feature set.

19:12We've also got here and view acceleration

19:15supports or workbooks created from data

19:16sources, leveraging virtual connections and

19:19now support view acceleration. The

19:21acceleration loads views faster by pre

19:23computing and fetching the workbooks.

19:25Data in the background. So that's again a

19:27nice addition. We've also got view

19:29acceleration recommendation enhancement. So

19:32views can now recommend views for

19:34acceleration to workbook owners and admins.

19:38Okay, so that's quite a nice you can sort

19:39of say to an admin and author say hey, can

19:43you speed up this workbook in addition to

19:45workbook query time and usage factors

19:47viewer suggestions are now inputs of the

19:50automated view acceleration recommend a

19:53certain nation service. So

19:55wow, so interesting. So this is this kind

19:58of this is kind of kind of this is kind of

20:00weird. Because what it's essentially doing

20:04is giving end users viewers the like a

20:07button where they can click to say make

20:09this go faster. The only problem I think is

20:13that I think who won't click that button.

20:16You know what I mean? So that would be an

20:19interesting dynamic to see how that works.

20:22I wonder if you can

20:24restrict who can who can do that, obviously

20:26, you have to have access to the workbook to

20:28be able to hit that button. But how do you

20:30stop everyone hitting it and maybe this

20:32sort of automation side is everyone if

20:34everyone hits everything, then it's

20:35obviously going to choose the highest sort

20:38of priority items. So it balances out over

20:40time. But the first time people see that I

20:42think everyone will just smash that and

20:44then it won't work. And then they'll be

20:46like, Oh, what's the point in that, you

20:48know, or the worst yet as an admin or as an

20:50author, you'll start getting messages from

20:52people saying hey, I saw a button to

20:54enhance the workbook tableau said you can

20:56make it go faster. Isn't that true? That

20:59kind of stuff, you know, myths that kind of

21:01form up in business enterprises very easily

21:04. timestamps for tableau prep outputs, that

21:06's kind of nice. You could kind of do this

21:09already. But what it suggests is you can

21:11now add a dynamic date or date time stamp

21:14to tableau prep output names for published

21:16data sources and file outputs. So this is

21:19for the name of the file as well.

21:20Interesting. tableau prep can dynamically

21:23update the timestamp on the

21:24flow is run via tableau prep builder or

21:25tableau prep conductor. This means you no

21:28longer have to manually enter parameter

21:30values. So they didn't have parameter

21:32features that could actually let you do

21:34this. And you could go in and type the

21:36update date. So this is kind of nice. I

21:38think in specific instances where you want

21:41the dates to reflect when the flow ran. And

21:44I don't think you're going to change your

21:46workflow if you want the dates reflect

21:47something else, like a version or release

21:50or when something was actually launched.

21:52But nonetheless, yeah, kind of nice to

21:53have that as well. Just a nice little nice

21:56to have admin insights enhancements. So

21:58admin insights are essentially the tableau

22:00cloud equivalent of the Postgres database,

22:02they give you information about activity on

22:05your tableau cloud site. And enhancements

22:07include the job performance data source now

22:10includes tableau bridge extract refresh job

22:12data. This enables you to better track your

22:14tableau bridge extract jobs, and include

22:17data on your agents, pools, runtimes and

22:21error messages. I do need to do a new video

22:23on

22:23tableau bridge. And I haven't done it in a

22:25while and a lot has changed. So we'll maybe

22:27do something like that. But essentially,

22:29where the way tableau bridge works is you

22:31have a computer inside of your network, and

22:33then you have tableau cloud and the

22:35computer inside of your network is running

22:38tableau bridge and is responsible for going

22:40and updating the data sources, essentially,

22:42tableau cloud will say, Hey, I need fresh

22:44data and the little tableau bridge client

22:46on the computer internally in your network

22:48will go off and you know, get the data. The

22:51way this works is, you know, there are

22:53pools of tableau bridge agents. So you

22:54might have multiple computers that are

22:56responsible for doing this. And that is

22:58actually recommended in big organizations.

23:01And the agents are sort of each individual

23:03instance of the applications running. So

23:05you could actually have multiple agents

23:07running at the same time. And so the error

23:10message and runtimes are just dependent on

23:12how you set everything up. And the TS users

23:15data source now tracks your organization's

23:17tableau desktop usage. That's cool. If you

23:20're using license based login management,

23:22you now have the ability to see that data

23:24here. The brand new subscriptions data

23:26source lets you see which users have

23:28subscriptions, and allows you to create a

23:30complete picture of your subscription help

23:32in your deployment when combined with other

23:34admin insights data sources. So essentially

23:37giving you a feel for who's actually

23:38subscribing to your data, who's getting

23:40sort of pings in their emails, that could

23:42be a good sign of sort of engagement as

23:44well. So it's a nice metric to have

23:45alongside other metrics, you could find

23:47people that are not logging in, but are

23:49getting subscriptions. So you can kind of,

23:51you know, make some sort of

23:52judgment call if you apply sort of email

23:54opening percentage and say, hey, that's

23:56working. Or you could use it to troublesh

23:58oot, for example, maybe you see there's a

24:00big list of subscriptions, and they all

24:02click on the same report at the same time,

24:04which causes a performance spike on the

24:07tableau server or tableau cloud, that's

24:09going to be pretty nice. Again, this is

24:10only tableau cloud for now I should say

24:12that I'm assuming this will come to tableau

24:15. Actually, you wouldn't need to come to

24:17tableau server because tableau server has

24:19Postgres, you kind of have this already. So

24:21just ignore me.

24:23Tableau catalog sensitivity label. So this

24:22is new. One thing I've noticed in some of

24:22these tableau cataloging and data lineage

24:22sort of features is they're adding color

24:22and they're not they're not shy about the

24:22colors. I mean, I've seen purple here quite

24:22strong a few times. And there's a few other

24:22colors and I just think, wow, they're

24:22really deviating from the tableau color

24:22palette. But I think I think this is a sign

24:22of things to come. I think we're gonna get

24:22some wild, bold Salesforce colors in the

24:22system. So be on the lookout for that.

24:52For those nonetheless, tableau catalog

24:54sensitivity labels, you can now label your

24:56tableau assets, databases, tables, columns,

24:58and data sources, and virtual connections

25:01and flows as sensitive. It's quite a lot

25:03you can label. With asset labels, you can

25:05choose a generic value or create your own

25:07depending on how your organization class

25:09ifies sensitive data. Labeling sensitive

25:11data will help guide decision making for

25:13users that are shaping, publishing, viewing

25:15or governing data and tableau. This feature

25:16was built API first. Whoa, wow. So no

25:16matter where you store sensitive

25:16information, you can also use the tableau

25:16cataloging and data lineage to create a

25:16more sensitive data.

25:16And tableau. This feature was built API

25:18first. Whoa, wow. So no matter where you

25:21store sensitive information today, you can

25:23import them into tableau. So this feature

25:26was built API first. So what I think that

25:28means is, look, you're not gonna have to

25:31sit there and manually go and find these

25:33things. There's going to be some sort of

25:35API for you to dictate what is sensitive.

25:38Or there is something else going on that I

25:40don't fully understand. One of those two

25:43things.

25:44Maybe it's both. Maybe I think I know and I

25:46don't understand it at the same time. Who

25:49knows? Activity log enhancement. So the

25:51activity log now provides even more

25:53visibility into what's happening in your

25:55tableau cloud site. At near real time, the

25:57activity log now tracks usage of personal

26:00accesses token, login, login activities,

26:03views for workbooks and data sources. And

26:05that's pretty standard. Copy paste

26:07protection on mobile.

26:08So mobile devices, admins can now protect

26:10sensitive data leakage from tableau mobile

26:13by disabling copy and paste via clipboard

26:15on iOS and Android. That's actually quite

26:17nice. This was previously on iOS, I believe

26:20I think you could have you could disable,

26:23for example, iOS, you could disable running

26:24on jailbroken devices.

26:26I think you could disable the ability to

26:28take screenshots in the previous release.

26:30This as the ability to do copy and paste

26:32protection, which if you're using an iPad

26:35is actually quite handy. It's a very sort

26:37of easy way to get data out of your systems

26:39, essentially, you go in.

26:42What I think is also interesting is that,

26:44you know, these devices are getting pretty

26:47smart. So if I took a screenshot of a table

26:50as an example, if you look on iOS, you're

26:53actually able to just copy text off the

26:55screenshot. So I think I have to check

26:57whether this is actually going to block

26:58that as well.

26:59I think in the previous release, screenshot

27:01protection was actually enabled. I have to

27:03double check that as well. So I'll let you

27:05know in the comments. But nonetheless, yeah

27:07, pretty nice to have dark mode on mobile,

27:10man, we need dark mode on desktop. I can't

27:12really see this.

27:13Let's see if we can see this. There we go.

27:17That's a better image. So this is what it

27:21looks like. So I don't know if this is

27:24basically taking the standard assets and

27:28flipping the colors a little bit for you.

27:33Or if, you know, in some respects, I can it

27:33kind of depends on what you've designed. If

27:33you've designed something with with

27:33deliberately white colored backgrounds, I

27:33don't think this is going to be able to do

27:34it unless it's applying a filter on the th

27:36umbnails. And it's using that to kind of in

27:38vert everything. That's a pretty cool thing

27:40if that's what it's doing.

27:41So we'll have to wait and see. So don't

27:43murder mobile that's going to be handy. And

27:45embedding API version 3.6 man, the embed

27:49ding API is moving so fast. Every I think

27:52every month there's been a release the

27:54embedding API v 3.6 enables developers to

27:57bring self service analysts and users the

27:59API allows you to create an embedded author

28:01ing session with a blank workbook. Oh, wow.

28:04So embedded authoring session with a blank

28:06workbook essentially means you can say, Hey

28:08, here's a data source, go build something.

28:10So essentially, you don't have to build

28:12your own chart builder, you can just use

28:14Tableau and give it a data source and you

28:16get an embedded authoring session

28:19developers can now programmatically export

28:22their embedded dashboard worksheet or story

28:24to CSV, Excel PDF, or PowerPoint without

28:27showing the Tableau UI.

28:28Nice. The that basically means when you

28:31click Download doesn't pop up the the the

28:34the little pop up that looks like Tableau

28:36that is completely doesn't look like your

28:39application. So if you have a PDF, CSV,

28:43Excel button, well, this is going to offer

28:45is the ability to just get the PDF without

28:46any sort of middle step in there.

28:49The embedding API 3.6 also enables

28:51developers to handle errors in the external

28:54applications when Tableau connected apps

28:57flow is failing. So external applications

28:59Hold on, hold on, let me read this again.

29:01The embedded API very 3.6 and they also

29:03enables developers to handle errors in

29:06their external applications.

29:07When the Tableau connected apps flow is

29:09failing. So basically, when the flow of

29:12connected apps is failing, you can handle

29:14errors inside of your applications a lot

29:17better, whereas maybe before the connected

29:19apps and Tableau weren't feeding that

29:22information back. So it's a little bit

29:24difficult.

29:25Image role enhancements. So we saw this at

29:28conference actually the ability for support

29:32gifts, but also just supporting other image

29:35types SVG, WebP, JFF, ICO, BMP and GIF.

29:39In addition to the PNG, JPEG and JPEG

29:41formats, they initially announced SVG is

29:44going to be a huge one because SVG SVG are

29:46like gems. If you don't know what an SVG is

29:49, imagine if you could draw an image not by

29:51drawing it by by describing it using a

29:53mathematical formula

29:55that essentially makes it vector. So

29:57instead of saying here's a line, you have

29:59two points and you define how that line and

30:01the angle goes. And then her magic is that

30:03you can scale that up to any size because

30:05it's just maps, you can just scale it up to

30:08as big as you need or small as you need.

30:09And so they actually scale much, much, much

30:13nicer. So SVG icons are really good way of

30:18actually portraying certain things. The

30:22other thing is that they're quite small

30:26because they're just mathematical formulas.

30:32They take next to no data. I've seen

30:32incredible pieces of design, which have

30:32been fit into a megabyte because everything

30:32on the page is just an SVG icon.

30:32They were actually designed for the web to

30:33portray really sharp images, so that's

30:35going to be great to see. I think they'll

30:37be great for logos, they'll be great for

30:39brand icons, they'll be great anytime you

30:40want to use something. To me, that's going

30:42to be the format to go and try and find.

30:44And most logos do exist in an SVG format,

30:46or you can turn them into an SVG format as

30:49well. If you have the original vector files

30:52to create that. Another vector format is a

30:54PDF. For example, if you create vector art

30:56in PDFs, you can see you can zoom into that

30:59and the test will

31:01stay very clear. So that's really cool.

31:03They've also got the limit going up to 100.

31:05I don't know what it was before, I think it

31:07was quite small. And then the file size has

31:09gone up to 200 kilobytes from 123 or

31:12something. So they've given us a little bit

31:14more wiggle room to allow more images.

31:16So if you have a good image compression

31:19algorithm, you can get a lot of large

31:22images into 200 kilobytes. So that's going

31:26to literally open up the bandwidth to so

31:29many more options. And again, I've done a

31:31video on how to use Cloudinary. I'm

31:31actually going to be talking on the Cloud

31:33inary

31:34platform very soon about this particular

31:36capability. So look out for that. You can

31:38also remove requirements with no need for

31:40image lengths to contain extensions. So you

31:43can just have a link and it doesn't have to

31:45have an extension. I think Tabl will figure

31:47out the extension just by going to the file

31:49itself.

31:50So that's kind of really good to see. So I

31:52think a lot of APIs and systems also don't

31:54necessarily always specify an extension

31:56because it can kind of break the way links

31:58work. And also from a security perspective,

32:01it just means that you're not opening

32:03yourself to attack by specifying the image

32:06format.

32:07And therefore someone can pack something

32:09nasty in that image format. Anyway, data

32:12driven alerts, REST API. So our new REST

32:14API endpoint enables you to create data

32:16driven alerts for visualizations with a

32:19single access. Now you can programmatically

32:21create data driven alerts.

32:22So key people are notified in their email.

32:25So this is nice. Being able to program

32:28matically control the alerts is really nice

32:31because again, it's kind of creating this

32:34way of giving people an interface to create

32:37these alerts and sort of go off.

32:40So enables you to create an info with a

32:43single access. Okay, now you can. What I'd

32:46be interested to see is if what they mean

32:48by single access means you don't even need

32:51a like you just need an access. So you just

32:53need to like you just don't you don't need

32:55an access like a single column basically.

32:57So I'm interested to see what that actually

32:59explicitly means. But I think I maybe you

33:02know, wish casting here maybe it's just as

33:04simple as you need one access but your

33:06charts going to need still to whatever.

33:09Tableau site and key people are notified in

33:12their email

33:13Tableau site and connected Slack workspaces

33:15when data reaches the threshold nice geosp

33:18atial geospatial analysis enhancements geosp

33:21atial analysis with Tableau is more

33:23comprehensive than ever new enhancements to

33:26the spatial calculation language allows you

33:29to answer

33:30a broad range of questions from a geosp

33:32atial data outline creates new formatting

33:35options shape type enables new pivots based

33:38on geometry type eg distinct treatments of

33:40roads versus regions very nice and length

33:43creates new opportunities for route

33:45planning.

33:46We've also made it easy to bring spatial ge

33:49ometries into Tableau by supporting the full

33:52geo JSON language during import. So this

33:55feels like a very, you know, yeah, well,

33:58whatever, what's the big deal? Well, here's

34:01the thing.

34:02outline creates new formatting options. So

34:04you can essentially outline a polygon. So

34:07the outline is kind of useful, because what

34:10you can do is you can also buffer the

34:11outline so you can use existing

34:13capabilities to enhance these new features

34:16if that makes shape

34:17type enables new pivots based on a geometry

34:19type eg distinct treatments for roads

34:22versus regions so you can yeah you can

34:24treat roads and regions very differently.

34:27That's kind of nice and lens creates new

34:29opportunities for route planning. So I'd be

34:32interested to dig into length a little bit

34:33and just see exactly what what how that is

34:34actually.

34:35It's not the same as distance. So, and

34:37length could specifically allow you to

34:40calculate the length of a road for example.

34:43And if you know those roads, and you know

34:45the routes taken you could sort of compute

34:48travel travel distances from lines much

34:50easier for example what's the length of a

34:53river.

34:53Well if you've got the polygon you should

34:55be able to compute the length quite nicely

34:58so having that as a useful sort of data

35:00point so you know how far a boat has to

35:02travel is kind of kind of useful.

35:05We've made it easy to bring spatial

35:07geometric geometries in with 4g adjacent

35:10supports this is another spatial.

35:12So far from it has been supported before

35:14but I think it's talking about the full

35:16support again I'm not a geospatial ninja so

35:18I'll probably point over to my career to

35:20kind of break that down for us at some

35:22point.

35:23Using usage metrics enhancements so track

35:26content shares is good usage metric

35:28enhancements total shares is now displayed

35:32as a metric.

35:33So how many times something has been shared

35:35is quite nice so you've got total favorites

35:36total views and total shares, and you've

35:38got a little usage section popping up so

35:40hopefully that's going to get populated

35:42with more types of, I think what I'd love

35:44is, you know, bounce bounce rates so you go

35:48to

35:48the viz. How quickly does it take the

35:50people to sort of hop off and use to be

35:52able to find the, you know the time for

35:54that so let's say 30 seconds. And if you

35:57know if the high bounce rate is high that

35:59means people aren't actually looking at it

36:02they're just sort of scanning

36:03it and going very quickly. But then again

36:04yeah people are spending a lot of time

36:06maybe you want to optimize that and get it

36:07down. So you could look at it in sort of

36:09lots of different ways.

36:10So we've made navigation, the content grid

36:12a little bit easier and more accessible

36:14adding for keyboard navigation support

36:17including selection and batch action so

36:19essentially just using a keyboard you can

36:21navigate select stuff, and, you know, move

36:24around with

36:25just the keyboard without having to use the

36:27mouse again another accessibility feature.

36:29Good to see.

36:30Last to analytics extensions enhancements.

36:33Now you can compress requests sent to and

36:35responses from your analytics extension

36:38server. This will help you avoid running

36:40into payload constraints when using table

36:43extensions that involve large data set same

36:46essentially being able to compress a

36:49request means you can get sort of more data

36:51through the same pipeline to enable this

36:54capability analytics extensions admin

36:57consent flag gzip enabled to true. So, gzip

37:00is a way of sort of compressing data and

37:02information and I think

37:03some tools actually support compressed

37:05files in this format so it allows you to

37:07fit more into basically the same request

37:09without hitting any sort of limitation and

37:12tablet cloud email customization customized

37:14emails by enabling or disabling links in

37:17subscriptions

37:18and data driven alerts, emails, insight

37:20settings. This capability is specifically

37:22useful in embedded contexts, where you want

37:25to provide a white label experience and

37:27drive usage of your application.

37:29That's kind of nice. So, again, another

37:31feature for the embedded use case, it

37:33really feels like Tableau wants to fade

37:35into the background here.

37:37And a lot of the embedding capabilities a

37:39lot of the platform announcements have a

37:40conference tableau more than happy for you

37:42to get rid of the tablet logo and just

37:44build your own application around its

37:46platform because they know it makes it

37:48sticky

37:48and they know it makes it easier for people

37:51to be a little bit more hooked into the

37:54product so that's why those features are

37:56going to be coming in fast. Anything that

37:59ties you in I'm sure they're gonna love.

37:59Anyway, that is the full page I've gone

38:00through all of that.

38:01Like I said, there will be some things that

38:03are, you know, not announced and will make

38:05the list so once the release is out will

38:07obviously start making videos as always.

38:09And yeah, we'll go through the entire

38:10release. Thanks for watching I'll catch you

38:13in the next one.

38:13Over the next few days I'm also going to be

38:15trying to cover a few more bits of content

38:17I haven't had a chance to cover before this

38:19release comes out I think it's probably

38:21about two weeks away at this rate.

38:23So look out for that it's going to be a

38:24pretty, pretty busy summer in terms of

38:26features announcements and obviously off

38:28the back of conference as well as other

38:30conferences happening, as well as

38:32interesting things happening in the

38:34competitor space as well.

38:35Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the

38:36next one.

38:37In the next one.

38:39Bye.

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