The Tableau Release Navigator - Easily Compare Tableau Features and releases.

0:00Have you ever wanted a tool that tells you

0:01all the releases and updates to Tableau in

0:04one place,

0:04but more importantly shows you all the

0:06features you're going to get when you

0:08upgrade from one

0:08version of Tableau to another across all

0:11the products? In this video I'm going to

0:13show you

0:13a tool that does exactly that. Let's get

0:16stuck in. So the tool that does that is

0:17called the

0:18Tableau Release Navigator. Now I actually

0:21covered this way back in 22.1 when it came

0:24out. I did a

0:25little video touching on this and at the

0:26time it wasn't completely filled out and I

0:28actually

0:28slept on this myself. I've just been

0:30looking through the 22.2 updates and

0:32realized that this

0:33tool exists so I actually went through the

0:35release version and I have to say this is

0:37probably one of

0:38the most valuable tools that anyone who

0:39looks after Tableau and the organization

0:42could probably

0:42make sure they bookmark and have. I'll also

0:44show you something I really appreciate from

0:47this as

0:47well but here it is this is the Tableau

0:49Release Navigator. As you can see it's

0:51broken down by

0:52product and version so you can go ahead

0:54choose a particular product Tableau Prep,

0:56Tableau Desktop

0:57or Tableau Server. I'd love to see this add

1:00other parts of the Tableau ecosystem but

1:02those three

1:03broadly cover most of what you're going to

1:05want to know about. If I just go ahead and

1:07deselect all,

1:08let's just select Tableau Desktop, you'll

1:10see that it just shows me all the updates

1:11to Tableau

1:12Desktop. Now the other thing I can do is I

1:14can go ahead and tick what is enabled by

1:17add-ons and what

1:18isn't and so I can obviously go through and

1:20filter that but I'll just keep everything

1:22selected.

1:22And the great thing here is I can actually

1:24pick versions that I'm interested in

1:26understanding.

1:26Let's say that I'm on 2019, sorry let's

1:30start again, let's say I'm on 2020.4 and I

1:34want to

1:35know what's going to be new in every other

1:37Subsequent Version. What I can do is I can

1:39select

1:39all the versions after 2020.4 and I'll get

1:43a nice list of all the things that I've

1:46updated and this

1:46is really really nice to see. Now I've got

1:48a little bug here where I can't select

1:50inside of

1:50this little cursor. I think I have to click

1:53on inside of the chart and then it will

1:54actually

1:55work but it sort of scrolls the whole page

1:57as well. But you get everything in one

1:59place, this is a

1:59really nice useful set of features. Now the

2:02nice thing here is that you can obviously

2:04enhance this

2:05as well because here we're just searching

2:07by features, you can filter by product, by

2:09version,

2:09all of that stuff is going to be great but

2:11the real power comes when it comes to

2:13upgrading.

2:13Let's go to Upgrade Desktop just over here

2:16and have a look at that. You see here you

2:19get an

2:19interface that allows you to pick the

2:20version you're coming from and the version

2:22you're going

2:22to. So I can actually go ahead and do the

2:24exact same thing I just did but I can

2:26select 2020.4

2:28and I can say I'm going to 2020.1 and you

2:30'll see that it just covers all those same

2:33features here

2:33in a really really nice nice and clear way.

2:35So I get a list of everything that's going

2:37to be coming

2:38on and I can also enable and disable things

2:40that are going to be part of add-ons. Let's

2:42say I don't

2:43have the Server Management or Data

2:44Management add-on, I can actually switch

2:46these off and it

2:47will filter those features out. So you can

2:50see now this list is a lot more sort of

2:51concise. What I

2:52can also do is I can also say okay remove

2:54everything that isn't part of an add-on and

2:57just show me the

2:57add-ons capabilities, what's been added

3:00specifically for the Data Management add-on

3:02and I can see that

3:03here they're mostly Tableau catalog updates

3:05and if I go to the Server Management add-on

3:07I shouldn't

3:07see anything for Desktop because of course

3:09that's for Survey, I shouldn't see anything

3:11for Server

3:11Management in the Desktop SKU. So this is

3:13actually a really really nice way of

3:15looking at this. The

3:16other thing is when you select a particular

3:18feature you do get a little bit of a

3:19breakdown of what it's

3:20about and when you click on it if you just

3:23look at this here you do get a Learn More

3:25link and the

3:26Learn More link takes you to the

3:27documentation for that feature. So if you

3:29want to learn a little bit

3:30more about that particular feature you can

3:32just hop right into the documentation and

3:34the nice thing

3:35is that these documentation links always

3:37link to the most current version of the

3:39documentation.

3:40Now that can be a double-edged sword

3:42because if a feature changes in the future

3:44and you're looking

3:45at something historic you might go to the

3:47latest version of the documentation that is

3:49actually

3:50and sometimes incorrect for your version so

3:52that's just something to bear in mind but

3:54nonetheless I

3:55think this is an all-round amazing feature.

3:57It's something I was actually thinking of

3:59doing for

3:59TableauTim.com. I was hoping to go through

4:02grab all my videos and attach them to a

4:03specific

4:04item or release and then have a browser

4:07that sort of takes you through that

4:09experience. So this

4:09might be something I still do in the future

4:11but I think it's better as a sort of

4:13dedicated web

4:13experience that's a little bit more bespoke

4:15so we'll have a think about how we do that

4:17but

4:17nonetheless this is an amazing data set.

4:20Now the other thing I really like about

4:22this is that it's

4:22of course a workbook that's downloadable so

4:24you can go down here to the very bottom

4:26click download

4:27and you can get the Tableau workbook itself

4:29. I've actually gone ahead and done that

4:31already you can

4:31see that I've got the workbook here and the

4:33reason I got the workbook because I just

4:34wanted to play

4:35around with the workbook and see what it's

4:37like. This is also great if you want to

4:39deploy in your

4:39own organization maybe publish this up onto

4:41the server so other people in your

4:43organization maybe

4:44in the center of excellence have access to

4:46this you can just wholesale take the work

4:48book put it

4:49in your organization embed it and then

4:50every time the new one comes out just make

4:52sure you update it.

4:53The other thing you could do is you could

4:55grab the data and standardize the data

4:57through a data

4:58pipeline let's say in Tableau prep or

4:59something else and then you can also tag

5:02that data set

5:02with specifics about your organization how

5:05you use it and best practice and in order

5:08to do that

5:08all you need to do is come to this workbook

5:10right click on the data set and then go

5:12ahead and export

5:13it to a csv that gives you essentially an

5:15excel file you can grab open that up and

5:18then you get

5:18something that looks like this all the

5:20features that have been released in the

5:21different versions

5:22nicely categorized and you can start to use

5:25this as a way of filling in context maybe

5:27your

5:27organization doesn't use certain features

5:30you can add a column here saying enabled or

5:32disabled so

5:33people can come onto the server and see a

5:35data set that shows them which features are

5:37working in your

5:38organization and which features have been

5:39disabled by admins and then maybe giving

5:41you a contact

5:42link so you can reach out to someone and

5:43talk to them another thing you might do is

5:45just take this

5:46data set put it into your own system and

5:48then create some sort of api that you then

5:50might use

5:51to query specific types of features how

5:53they're working maybe you want to put this

5:55in an lms

5:56learning management system as a way of

5:58listing the features and products that have

6:00come out maybe

6:01you're a training provider and you want to

6:02make sure you're providing the most up-to-

6:04date training

6:04about Tableau this is like a change log for

6:06how your training is going to have to

6:08change in the

6:09future so this data set is just so valuable

6:11in so many different ways it's unbelievable

6:14and i'm just

6:14glad that this exists because i'll be

6:16absolutely frank as someone who covers

6:18Tableau features that

6:19are new every single month every single

6:22quarter even it's impossible to get all the

6:25features in

6:25one place until this feature because

6:27essentially what happens is the product

6:29marketing blog

6:30doesn't actually list out all the features

6:33if you go to the documentation that also

6:35doesn't always

6:36list out all the features and then on top

6:38of that there are some changes that are

6:40just so small and

6:41so sort of nuanced they don't really get

6:43heavily documented anywhere other than the

6:46source

6:46documentation themselves and of course no

6:48one is checking the entire documentation

6:50for a change log

6:51and so it's also difficult to spot those

6:53changes so in more recent years they have

6:55started calling

6:56out changes if you go to the what's new in

6:59Tableau if i just search what's new Tableau

7:03more recently what they've started doing is

7:04they've started adding a section let me

7:08show

7:08you what that looks like so this is the

7:10what's new page for desktop and altering

7:12and if i go back and

7:13i go all the way down you'll see features

7:15introduced in previous versions of Tableau

7:17if i go ahead and

7:18click on that then you'll see this drop

7:20down list and in most cases it says added

7:23in version 2018.3

7:25and so on and so forth that's what we used

7:27to in in sort of the past but over if i go

7:30over here to

7:30server if i go to yeah server on windows

7:33let's go here what's new if i go to the

7:35very bottom page

7:37there what you'll see is they've started

7:39documenting the changes so you can see here

7:41changed

7:41in 2022.1 those are the things that have

7:44changed settings defaults all of those are

7:47now being

7:47documented separately here so of course if

7:50i go to this bottom link here then for each

7:52version i

7:52now have some sort of change log and these

7:55changes are also appearing in this

7:57particular data set if

7:58i actually go over here there's a column

8:00that says status let's make this a filtered

8:03data set let's

8:03just go in here and create a filter and we

8:06'll go ahead and just look at the changed

8:08items here

8:09and you can see there's actually quite a

8:11lot of changes and these changes are

8:12sometimes nuanced

8:14sometimes they're very important sometimes

8:16they're very small but it's really good to

8:19have a change

8:19log that's being sort of maintained and you

8:21can kind of have a look at that so that's

8:23it for this

8:24video i just wanted to cover this as i'm

8:26going through the 22.2 videos i can't say

8:29that phrase

8:30clearly this whole year 22 dot whatevers

8:32have just been such a pain in the neck to

8:34say out loud

8:35i just need to come up with a different

8:37release a bit like salesforce actually have

8:40the spring

8:40summer and autumn release i'd love that it

8:42's just so much easier to say but anyway

8:44here we are here

8:45are the features in one place you can

8:47download the workbook browse the workbook

8:50download the data set

8:51make use of it as much as you possibly can

8:53i personally will be making a lot of use of

8:55this

8:56throughout the channel so stay tuned for

8:58more content on that thanks for watching

9:00and i'll

9:00catch you in the next video

9:01you

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