View Data Models for Published Data Soueces : New in Tableau 2024.3

0:00Alright, there's a nice new change in 24.

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0:03When you connect to a published data source inside of Tableau Desktop, you can now see the data model.

0:07What does that mean?

0:08Well, here I'm actually connected to three data sources.

0:11I connected to one

0:12to test this feature then i published another one and then i connected to it again as a published data source that's why i have three here i should have named them it's really bad habit that i'm into

0:22But nonetheless, if I go and edit this connection because this is the original data source, I can see the data model absolutely fine.

0:27You can see this interface is the standard data modeling interface that you get.

0:32If we go back to sheet one by clicking here on the bottom, uh what this should do is should take us back to this page.

0:37I'll click the show me button because that's distracting.

0:39And if I actually go to the data source that I've just published based on that connection I just showed you

0:44If I go ahead and hit Edit Data Source, you'll see that we now get this view.

0:48It's slightly different because we can't edit this view.

0:51It's a published data source

0:52And you can see here there's a little lock icon to say, hey, look, this data source is locked because it's a published data source, it's read-only.

0:59There is a way to change these.

1:00You go to Tableau Cloud, you go to Tableau Server, and you can edit them there.

1:04There's actually a new editing capability there

1:06And when you make a change there, it pushes it down to the data source.

1:09But here, the new thing is that you can see this data model.

1:12So as an end user, if you're going to use this published data source, you actually get some visibility into how the data model is built.

1:18This is great for governance.

1:20Great for transparency and clarity, but critically it gives people who are using these data sources a little bit more of a tactile sort of feedback as to what's going on.

1:28So if you get any odd behaviors in the way that your calculations work,

1:32you can actually see the root cause here.

1:34So that's pretty much it.

1:35That's the change.

1:35There's nothing more radical than that.

1:38And thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.