What's in the Tableau 2022.3 Release

0:00Hey, it's Tim here. In this video, 22.3 is

0:02out and the coming soon page is up, so we

0:04're just going to go through all the

0:05features that are on the coming soon page

0:07to quickly scout what's in this release.

0:09Let's get stuck in.

0:11Okay, so here we are. This is the coming

0:12soon page. Now, I haven't been on YouTube

0:14for a while. Stick around to the end to

0:16find out why.

0:17We're going to get straight into this page

0:18because I have to be honest, I think it's

0:20taken a really, really, really long time to

0:22find out what's in this release.

0:24Largely because the beta itself didn't have

0:26that many features we could test. And so a

0:29lot of people have been sort of

0:31anticipating this particular page or the

0:33announcement from Tableau telling you what

0:34's coming up.

0:35And it's sort of weird because the way I

0:36found out about this page was actually on

0:38Tableau Online, I went to try and fix a

0:39problem and I just stumbled across this.

0:42To me, that's not how these things should

0:43work. But anyway, we've got the features,

0:45we're going to go through them right now.

0:48So the first one is something called data

0:49guide. Now, I haven't been through this

0:51page in advance, so I'm going to sort of,

0:54you're going to get the first impression of

0:55these as I go through them.

0:57So let's have a look at this. So data guide

0:58is a new pane that provides a helpful

1:00information about dashboard and the data

1:02behind it.

1:03So essentially what this is, is a little

1:04pane on the right hand side. If you haven't

1:06sort of noticed recently, Tableau added

1:08this side pane on the right hand side of a

1:11dashboard that sort of comes up with

1:13explain data.

1:14And in essence, that sort of side pane has

1:16been getting more populated with

1:18information about data sets, explain data,

1:20a bunch of other data metrics now live

1:21there.

1:22And now this feature data guide. And the

1:25really nice thing about this is it's trying

1:27to help you understand what's going on on

1:29the dashboard.

1:31Think of it as like a tool guide for the

1:32dashboard, but in a much, much more sort of

1:36considered way than we're kind of used to.

1:38So at the moment, what a user has to do is

1:40build a dashboard with maybe tool tips and

1:42put the information in icons.

1:44And when you hover over those icons, you

1:45get little descriptors telling what's going

1:47on.

1:48Mark Reed, Tableau Visionary has also done

1:50this sort of nice technique on his blog

1:51where he shows you how to create this

1:53overlay that sort of goes on top of a

1:55dashboard.

1:56And this is something a little bit more

1:57considered using the UI to help you do that

1:59.

2:00So I'm going to be pretty keen to see how

2:02this works.

2:04But you do get this little gift that kind

2:05of gives you a flavor of how it works. But

2:08what's interesting about this release is

2:09that this feature sounds like more than

2:11just one thing.

2:12If you look here, it says data guide also

2:14introduces two new tools to help you decide

2:16which parts of the dashboard to focus on.

2:19So you can get insights faster. Explain the

2:21viz and data change radar. So explain the

2:24viz.

2:25That's going to be an interesting one

2:26because we just had data stories, which,

2:29you know, there's a lot of things that now

2:30have start to populate the same space.

2:32So explain the viz scans your dashboards

2:33for outlier measures and potential key

2:36drivers behind them.

2:37Data change radar, on the other hand, for

2:39Tableau Cloud only, and hint, tracks

2:41measure values in your dashboard over time

2:43and automatically flags unexpected values

2:45outside of normal business patterns as data

2:47refreshes.

2:48So let's break that down. Explain the viz.

2:51Sounds like explain data. So that's that's

2:53going to be an interesting one.

2:55I'm kind of going to want to see how

2:56explain the viz and explain data are

2:58different, maybe explain the viz and

3:00explain data are the same thing.

3:02Just rebranded. Who knows? Data change

3:05radar is a really cool feature because what

3:08it has to do to be able to tell you about

3:10things that are changing is be taking

3:12snapshots of that data over time.

3:14Because, of course, if your data set

3:16updates with refresh extracts, then this is

3:18actually going to need to keep a snapshot

3:20to tell you, oh, by the way, this value has

3:23changed beyond what it is.

3:24Normal over a period of time, and it's

3:25going to need to use that data to show you

3:27that trend. So that's going to be a really

3:29interesting feature.

3:31So data guide is huge. I you know, there's

3:34a lot packed in there.

3:36It's going to be really good for companies

3:38that have a lot of effort when it comes to

3:40helping users understand dashboards.

3:43It's going to help with data literacy in

3:44some context. And I think it will help take

3:46the pressure off off dashboard developers

3:50to have to sort of cram all this stuff into

3:52their dashboards,

3:53which then slows the dashboards down.

3:55Having it as part of the crime is going to

3:56really, really help.

3:57So that's going to be an interesting

3:58feature to see. Next up, table extensions.

4:01So this is really nice. At the moment, you

4:03can already work with R and Python using

4:04TabPy and our capability that you can

4:08integrate through analytics extensions.

4:11This is different because with that

4:13information, what you have to do is you

4:15have to pipe all those calculations to the

4:17relevant analytics extensions,

4:20APIs, and then the data comes back. But you

4:22can't do it in real time.

4:24What table extensions allows you to do is

4:26essentially pipe calculations in real time

4:29to these services.

4:31So it's going to be hard to sort of explain

4:32the nuance of this.

4:34But you can see here that this works at the

4:36connection level like any other data source

4:39would,

4:40rather than working at the calculation

4:41level where things are then precomputed

4:43into the data set.

4:44So this is going to be really, really

4:46interesting to see how this works.

4:48We're going to have to try and find some

4:49new use cases. The one they've got here,

4:51I think it's a model that's identifying

4:52objects within an image and it's doing it

4:55using an image object,

4:56which is a hint to something we saw at

4:58conference. So that's going to be something

5:00to look forward to.

5:01I'd love to see this demo. Whoever built

5:03this demo, if you're out there watching

5:05this video,

5:06you know, post that data set somewhere,

5:08tell us what libraries are using so we can

5:10recreate the demo and see how that works.

5:13I've got a real issue with my scroll wheel

5:14today. It's everywhere. We're going to have

5:16to use a side scroll here.

5:18Dynamic zone visibility. Wow. This is this

5:22is yet another hack that I'm going to be

5:24happy to not have to do.

5:25I don't do videos on hacks. This is one of

5:27them that I haven't done. People keep

5:28asking,

5:29how do I change sheets using a parameter?

5:32Well, this is going to hopefully do

5:34something like that,

5:35but I think it's going to take it to the

5:36next level. The key thing about this

5:38feature is that you can use it

5:41to control the dashboard elements, not just

5:43using parameters, but also fields.

5:46And if you can see this here at the bottom

5:47field. So what this suggests,

5:49and this example is showing is that I can

5:51generate a dashboard that has different

5:54charts for different items within a field.

5:56So you can see here they've got a data set

5:58with different breeds.

6:00And when you select a cat, it actually

6:03changes charts and images to completely

6:07different bits.

6:07So this is a really, really nice capability

6:10. It takes swapping sheets to the next level

6:12, in my opinion,

6:13because it means multiple sheets can be

6:16part of the same dashboard object.

6:20In essence, it takes the same space and all

6:22it's doing is swapping the sheets in and

6:24out.

6:24I think it's hopefully going to also be a

6:26much more optimized way of doing this,

6:28because I think adding parameters and

6:30swapping sheets, disabling things that

6:32normally runs on a calculation level,

6:34because you're essentially gnarling out

6:35everything within a sheet that has to run

6:37some computation.

6:39Whereas this, I hope, is doing something

6:40smart to make that a little bit of a better

6:42experience.

6:43So let's go ahead and close that. I mean,

6:46those three already are going to be pretty

6:47good.

6:48Table extensions won't be used by many

6:49people, admittedly, but dynamic zone

6:51visibility, data guide, those are going to

6:53be great.

6:54Dynamic scaling in a container. Now, this

6:56is not what you think it is for all the

6:58layout container fans out there.

7:01This is actually to do with Tableau Server

7:03and Tableau Cloud.

7:05So essentially being able to work with

7:08Docker and scaling up and scaling down

7:11Tableau environments.

7:13So if you're an infrastructure nerd, this

7:14will mean a lot to you, but I'm not going

7:16to spend too much time on this.

7:18We'll probably come back to this later in

7:19the future.

7:20I don't know enough about this to even

7:21start spitballing about it now, so let's

7:24just move on.

7:25Activity log in Tableau Server.

7:27So this is an interesting feature that was

7:28part of the advanced management add-on, I

7:31believe.

7:32And essentially what you get with Tableau

7:34Cloud and the advanced management add-on is

7:36this login capability.

7:38What this looks like is the same feature

7:39for Tableau Server.

7:41And of course, this is a release now

7:43because Tableau Server only gets updates

7:45twice a year.

7:47So this is sort of a feature from last

7:49release, now in this release.

7:51That's something to be aware of.

7:52Tableau Server only gets releases twice a

7:54year, the first one of the year and the

7:55third one of the year.

7:57So every other release.

7:59And so this is essentially the same

8:01capability.

8:02What this allows you to do is essentially

8:04stores logs.

8:05I think it stores it in an array,

8:06essentially like a JavaScript array.

8:09So that makes it much, much easier to sort

8:11of ingest information into other systems,

8:14but also process them.

8:15You can also store this stuff in various

8:17cloud technologies that are really good at

8:18handling this kind of data.

8:20And it says that it goes to a sort of a

8:21different level of granularity.

8:24So you can see here, goes above and beyond

8:27existing event data by exposing more events

8:30within your Tableau environment.

8:31By this, they're talking about Postgres.

8:33So Postgres already stores a lot of this on

8:35Tableau Server.

8:36If it goes well and beyond that, then this

8:39might be able to tell you a lot more about

8:42what's going on.

8:43You'll probably then have to parse this and

8:44then put it somewhere and then process it

8:46and then analyze it.

8:47So if you're out there looking to build a

8:50cool workbook or accelerator for the Table

8:53au exchange,

8:54then this is going to be a fantastic thing

8:56to dig into.

8:57Let's look at the next one, R state of

8:58phrase recommendations.

9:00So again, I feel like this is a new one for

9:02Tableau Server, but it shouldn't actually

9:04be here.

9:05This was released in the previous release

9:07of Tableau.

9:09So let me just test something.

9:11If I go to Tableau Cloud and I see the R

9:13state of phrase builder in that list, then

9:17you can see R state of phrase

9:19recommendations in this list.

9:20But R state of phrase builder is for Table

9:22au Server.

9:23So, you know, this release is lighter than

9:25it looks because a lot of these features,

9:29they came out last release,

9:30but they're coming out now for Tableau

9:31Server.

9:32So if I go to Tableau Server and you look

9:34at this list,

9:35there's a lot of stuff in here that's

9:37already available in the previous release.

9:41But that said, you know, that's maybe a bit

9:42unfair of me.

9:43There is a lot to unpack here.

9:44So let's just keep going through the full

9:46list and we'll carry on.

9:49So we've done R state of phrase

9:50recommendations, modern sharing experience.

9:53What does this mean?

9:54So let's go down. Ensure members in your

9:57organization are aware of and can access

9:58relevant content.

10:00So what this looks like is when you share

10:02something, it's not only going to send them

10:04an email,

10:05but actually check if they have permissions

10:05.

10:06And if not, if you have the ability to give

10:07them the permissions, it will actually let

10:09you do that.

10:10So you can I think you can just about to

10:11see that here in this sequence.

10:13Let's just wait for that. Yes, you can see

10:15you can grant access there and off it goes.

10:18It's really sort of nice. It's so obvious.

10:20This is sort of low hanging fruit to me.

10:22This is the kind of stuff that you shouldn

10:23't ship the feature until it can do this

10:25because everyone expects this to be just

10:27the standard part of the feature.

10:29But nonetheless, it's here. That's really,

10:31really good to see.

10:32OK, let's go to the next one. Collection

10:34site settings.

10:35So it looks like they're giving admins more

10:37control at a site level for collections,

10:40whether you can see them or not.

10:42This is sort of a weird one, because if you

10:43have collections, everyone could see

10:44collections.

10:45They've started using them and admin turns

10:46up, switches them off.

10:48Everyone's like, oh, no, you've broken my

10:49flow.

10:50But don't worry if an admin disables them

10:52and you lobby them to re-enable them, the

10:55existing ones will come back.

10:56So it's not going to delete them for you.

10:58It's just hiding the capability. So that's

11:00that's cool to see a nice little bit of

11:02control for server admins who need it.

11:05And when I say server admins, I also mean

11:06site admins as well.

11:08So bear that in mind. Copy dimensions as a

11:11measure.

11:12Oh, that's interesting. So what does this

11:13mean? Copy dimensions as a measure.

11:16OK, let's dig into this. Get more

11:17flexibility when using a dimension as a

11:19measure within the same or different works

11:21heet.

11:22Now with a quicker gesture, simply drag a

11:25dimension over the dimension. Simply drag a

11:28dimension over the dimension measure.

11:29Separated using the modifier key windows

11:31and the dimension will be copied as a

11:33measure.

11:34This is the Scott's word dimension too many

11:36times. It's doing my head in the key.

11:37Let's try again. Get more flexibility when

11:40using a dimension as a measure within the

11:42same or different worksheet.

11:44Now with a quicker gesture. OK, so this is

11:46this is basically this is what the feature

11:49is.

11:50I still don't get it. Let's see what they

11:51're doing. What are they doing? So you can

11:55drag it down.

11:58And then cross. But you can already do that

12:02. What am I missing here?

12:06Customer goes down. Then across.

12:11So customers going down. Is this.

12:18Is this for Web edit? I'm not sure if this

12:23is for Web edit.

12:24What am I missing here? If you know what I

12:26'm missing, like I feel really, really,

12:29really stupid here.

12:30Like what am I missing here? Let me know.

12:33What am I not getting here?

12:34I swear you could already drag a dimension

12:37below that line. Yes, it turns up there.

12:40Does it count? And you drag it across. Drop

12:43it in the view.

12:45OK. The dimension will be copied as a

12:51measure.

12:51There's a modify key. Windows control OS X

12:54command.

12:56We're going to have to try this. I have no

12:58idea. I have no idea what this gesture

13:00actually is.

13:01I'm sure it's it's useful, but I just have

13:03no clue. I'm really sorry. Data pane

13:05follows you.

13:07OK, what does this mean? We've streamlined

13:08the experience of organizing your data into

13:10hierarchies and folders.

13:12When you create a pain hierarchy, a folder,

13:13the data pane automatically scrolls the

13:15newly created hierarchy or folder position

13:18and selects it for you.

13:20So you can continue interacting with it

13:22without having to stop.

13:24So you create a hierarchy, create the

13:27folder and put it in the hierarchy.

13:30And it scrolls up to the hierarchy when it

13:32's created. Is this really a feature?

13:35I mean, come on. This is like an

13:36enhancement. This is not a feature.

13:39We can we can go on about this. Our

13:40features enhancement enhancements of

13:41features.

13:42This to me is a quality of life improvement

13:45, not a feature.

13:47So let's go to the next one. Improved web

13:48altering capabilities.

13:50OK, web altering catching up. Change the

13:52data type to the data pane in web altering.

13:57Web authors can now format the borders and

13:59dividers of totals and subtotals within the

14:01table.

14:02I'm telling you that web design march is

14:05strong. The web edit march is really strong

14:07.

14:08Tableau prep is already sort of web edit

14:10ready. Tableau desktop has been getting

14:13closer and closer.

14:14It's still not quite there. They're just

14:15few walls which you hit. And when you hit

14:17them, you hit them hard.

14:19You have to download desktop and finish off

14:21anyway.

14:22So people just don't bother. But when they

14:23kind of just get the whole thing in the

14:25browser, that will be one big achievement.

14:28Let's go ahead and close this. Go to the

14:29next one. Data stories on all data sources.

14:33Oh, interesting. How are they doing this?

14:35How are they doing this?

14:37They're going to have to send the data

14:38somewhere. You can't just do this for free

14:41without having something processes.

14:44So you can now add automated language

14:45summary dashboards using data stories on

14:48the data source.

14:48When data is setting up data, you'll be

14:50notified that your data is sent to a cloud

14:52hosted service.

14:54Every tabless server admin is going to

14:56disable this straight away.

14:58If you'd instead like to restrict use of

15:00data stories, case in point, administrators

15:03can disable this feature for all users

15:05through the site.

15:06So that's the arc of this feature. I read

15:08about it. It sounded cool.

15:10I immediately thought of an issue. They

15:12thought of it too. They gave us a second to

15:14switch it off.

15:15So there you go. That's what's going to

15:16happen for most people on tabless server.

15:18That said, on Tabla cloud, this could be

15:20quite cool having this work.

15:23You still probably going to have to answer

15:24the question of where is it sending the

15:26data to?

15:27How is that data handled? Is it cached?

15:28Does it clean it? What is Tabla doing with

15:30that data?

15:31All that stuff that's probably going to

15:32need to be detailed somewhere.

15:34So when the documentation for this comes

15:35out, we'll have to have a look and see what

15:37's in there.

15:38Let's go ahead to the next to the next

15:40feature. Let's go ahead and close this.

15:43Email and slack notifications for explain

15:45data. Oh, this is nice.

15:47So what you can do is you can share the

15:49explanation and slack or by email. Nice.

15:53That's it.

15:53That's pretty simple. So I think what

15:55happens here is if you share it with

15:57someone, it will send them an email and

15:59share.

16:00Let me start again. If you share something

16:02with someone from explain data, if they

16:05have emails and slack enabled, they'll get

16:07both.

16:08If they have one, they'll only get that one

16:09. But essentially it's just saying, hey,

16:12explain data can now send out notifications

16:13.

16:14So that's a pretty, pretty nice feature.

16:16Let's go ahead and close this.

16:18Let's go up. Email embedded API version 3.3

16:23. So the embedding API went to version 3

16:26fairly recently.

16:27I think at the very beginning of the year.

16:28And what they've been doing is they've been

16:30adding capabilities to it.

16:32Really, really quickly, I think they re

16:33wrote the embedding API from the ground up.

16:35It's sort of replacing the JavaScript API

16:38version 2.

16:39It's now called the embedding API in

16:41version 3. So this is a much, much more

16:43improved set of capabilities.

16:45I think it's going to bring embedding

16:47hopefully to new heights in about a year

16:50when they start adding some of the aspir

16:51ational things that cause them to want to

16:54rewrite the whole thing in the first place.

16:56So that's going to be really, really cool.

16:58It's obviously going to be need to be

16:59rewritten because of Tableau Cloud.

17:02Tableau Cloud is one of the biggest

17:03products. You still can't do embedding with

17:05Tableau Cloud.

17:06So I'm sure that this rewrite has probably

17:08got something to do with that. So let's let

17:10's wait and find out a little bit more

17:13personalized search results.

17:15OK, so the Tableau search experience

17:16continues to improve. Search now

17:17incorporates signals about your content

17:20preferences and personal viewing habits.

17:23I sound suspicious. The signals include the

17:25content that have been viewed in the past,

17:27content that you've favorited and views

17:28that are recommended to you.

17:30Trust that the content relevant to you is

17:32at the top of your search results with all

17:34the new personalized search.

17:36In 2022.3, this is only supported for views

17:39, workbooks, metrics and flows. Interesting.

17:43So it's basically taking into account your

17:46usage habits to inform the search. That

17:49makes sense.

17:50So if you're looking for a Google when you

17:51go to it, depending on who you are, if you

17:53are used to searching certain things a lot,

17:55Google learns that and it will try and

17:57prioritize search results to see you.

17:59When I search Tableau phrases, it knows

18:01what I'm talking about.

18:03But if my brother or my mother searches

18:04those same phrases, it comes up with

18:06completely different things because it

18:08knows they're not used to searching those

18:09things.

18:10So that's basically what we're seeing a bit

18:12of here inside of search. Really nice touch

18:14.

18:15Resource monitoring tool for SMTP/TLS

18:17improvement. I've got another crazy Tableau

18:19server acronym.

18:21So resource monitoring tool. Configuring an

18:23SMTP server connection with resource

18:25monitoring tool is now easier with

18:27additional flexibility to disable, prefer

18:29or require encryption.

18:31These options align more closely with those

18:33of Tableau server, are easy to understand

18:36and provide support for different SMTP

18:38configurations.

18:40Right. So I think what's going on here is

18:43that they're aligning. Let me just think

18:45about it again. Configuring an SMTP server

18:47connection with the resource monitoring

18:49tool, RMT.

18:50That's not a free tool. That's something

18:52you have to pay to get. The advanced

18:54management capability gets you that.

18:56It's now easier with additional flexibility

18:59to disable, prefer or require encryption.

19:05I'm not entirely sure what that means, to

19:07be honest. I don't know. This bit gets me

19:10SMTP server connection with the resource

19:12monitoring tool.

19:14I'm not sure if it's talking about the SMTP

19:16connection in the resource monitoring tool

19:18so it can tell you what's going on.

19:20Or if they're actually talking about the SM

19:22TP capabilities of Tableau server and the

19:25resource monitoring tool.

19:26That's basically what I can't get clear in

19:28my head. But if you know the answer, let me

19:30know in the comments. Really appreciate it.

19:32I will try and get to that. I'll never get

19:35to this feature. Who am I kidding?

19:38We will have a look at this feature when

19:39everything's launched. The documentation is

19:40clear. So improved Tableau prep conductor

19:44error messages.

19:46Oh, I have to say, I think this is a server

19:48feature again. I'm not in 22.2.

19:52Apparently the errors were improving. Or

19:55maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm mixing up betas

19:58and I might be doing exactly that.

20:00Error messages in Tableau prep are

20:02frustrating for two reasons. It's they just

20:04happen. If you've used Tableau prep, they

20:06just happen.

20:08One of the biggest hindrances at the moment

20:10for me recommending Tableau prep to people

20:12who run production level data pipelines,

20:16who want to do it with Tableau prep is the

20:19errors just come up all the time.

20:22And the funniest thing about the thing that

20:24should let you know that I'm not lying to

20:26you is that Tableau themselves in this

20:28description literally say out loud to help

20:31you troubleshoot flow run failures with

20:33Tableau prep conductor.

20:35We've added over 400 error codes.

20:40This shouldn't be that many for me to worry

20:42about. And improved error messaging to

20:44provide clarity on root causes and troubles

20:47hooting steps.

20:48Yeah, I mean, gosh, I mean in Tableau

20:50desktop, I'm sure there's as many but when

20:52you put the number right down on the

20:54marketing page that kind of makes you think

20:56, wait a minute, why would there be 400

20:59error codes different error codes I assume.

21:02So, if you can actually do anything about

21:05any of these error codes that's normally

21:07very important thing is find knowing what's

21:09wrong. It's difficult, not knowing why.

21:13So I wonder if these error codes help Table

21:15au because you'll be creating support

21:16tickets, then you'll have a specific code

21:18to tell Tableau.

21:20I wonder if these errors will be sent, you

21:22know, calling home so when something breaks

21:24in Tableau and you've got the feature

21:25enabled to notify Tableau of errors, these

21:28error codes will be going back to them and

21:29maybe they can better diagnose the product

21:31to get that number down to, you know,

21:33double digits rather than in the hundreds.

21:35And that's my assumption that I'm not

21:37entirely sure about that.

21:39Right to CRM with Tableau prep so CRM

21:41analytics. This is this was Einstein

21:44analytics which then became Tableau CRM

21:46which is now CRM analytics. You can now

21:48write to that platform from Tableau prep so

21:51Tableau prep becoming a data prep tool that

21:53can now push information, technically to

21:56the Salesforce system so that's a pretty

21:58pretty cool option.

21:59Column-lavored data quality warnings. Oh,

22:01this is nice. Of course, this will come

22:03with a data management add-on. No way this

22:05is just part of it. I think data quality

22:07warnings are part of the data management

22:09add-on so more features behind the add-on.

22:12Data quality warnings can now be applied to

22:14the column level. Data quality warnings

22:16allow you to mark columns that are

22:17deprecated or stale and those that may be

22:20displaying incorrect values.

22:22When the data quality warning is configured

22:23, you can enable high visibility warning

22:25across downstream assets to inform users of

22:27potential issues with the underlying data.

22:30So a high visibility is essentially an

22:31alert that not only shows up when you look

22:34at it on Tableau server or Tableau cloud

22:36when you are in desktop or when you're in

22:37prep, it actually gives you a little

22:38warning when you're using that field as

22:40well that shows up in the product. So being

22:43able to add data quality warnings, not just

22:45on the whole data source, but to say, hey,

22:47this particular field.

22:49It's got issues because of something we

22:51discovered last week. It's going to help a

22:53lot with data governance. I have to be

22:54honest. It's just one of those things where

22:56this is why the Tableau platform is magical

22:58. But why is it behind a like a like a plug-

23:01in?

23:02It's just so frustrating. So unless you

23:04have the data management add-on, which I

23:06know a lot of people don't necessarily have

23:07, you won't get this feature. But it's nice

23:09that you can do this kind of stuff.

23:12Just find a way of bundling the data

23:13management add-on within the products,

23:15please Tableau. Let's not make this good

23:18stuff go unused. It's a bit like Apple

23:19coming out with a bunch of features on

23:21their phone and then saying, oh, and by the

23:24way, you know, you can't use some features,

23:26even though your phone can technically do

23:27these things. It's kind of what it feels

23:29like.

23:30External assets permissions improvements.

23:32Oh, hello. So external assets can now be

23:35moved into projects. This change democrat

23:37izes metadata curation by utilizing existing

23:40project permissions to allow more users to

23:42manage description and data quality

23:45warnings.

23:46This removes site admins as a potential

23:48bottleneck and gives metadata ownership to

23:50users who know the data best. Additionally,

23:52this makes external assets more discover

23:53able for content creators.

23:55So this is interesting. So essentially what

23:58this is saying is that the external assets

24:01capabilities, wait a second, let's just,

24:04let's just say external assets can now be

24:06moved into projects.

24:08Oh, I see, I see, I see. So external assets

24:10is something like a database, a table,

24:12anything that's basically not part of the

24:14Tableau platform is external. And so by

24:17extension, that can only really be very

24:20static files, things like Excel files

24:22brought into Tableau,

24:24tables, databases, connections, virtual

24:26connections, these are all external assets,

24:29and they can now be brought into projects.

24:32And this allows people to change their

24:34metadata and see them in the in the list.

24:37So rather than just having them live in the

24:39external

24:40assets tab, which only site admins can see,

24:42now they can be brought into projects. So

24:44people who manage those connections who

24:46manage those databases can go and change

24:49the metadata, and projects start to become

24:51a little bit more useful in that sense.

24:54What I really like

24:54about this is that the concept of a site is

24:56sort of being diluted, because we're

24:58pushing more and more power into individual

25:00projects. So we're kind of seeing that

25:02capability sort of flesh out, which is

25:04really nice to see.

25:06Virtual connection improvements, downstream

25:08feature compatibility, users can now

25:10configure subscriptions, alerts and

25:11thumbnail generation for assets that

25:13leverage data sources. Right, right. So

25:16basically, previously, if you use the

25:17virtual connections, these capabilities

25:19weren't possible.

25:20Now, if you use a virtual connection, they

25:22are possible again, data management add on,

25:25sorry about that extract encryption, Table

25:27au server customers can choose to force

25:29extract encryption at the site or server

25:31level, similar to extracts not contained

25:33within a virtual

25:34connection. So I think this was already

25:36happening cloud. This is now coming to

25:38server. Okay, let's go to the next one.

25:40Cloud based file connectors for virtual

25:43connection. So file connectors box Dropbox,

25:46Google Drive and Microsoft Azure Data Lake

25:49Storage Gen 2.

25:50I don't know what data like storage Gen 2

25:52is. Oh, sorry, that's one long phrase,

25:55Microsoft Azure Data Logs. Try again.

25:58Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2.

26:01Okay, that's a really catchy title. And

26:04essentially, these are now going to be

26:05possible with the virtual connection.

26:07This is nice, actually, because quite a lot

26:09of people in companies, especially if you

26:11're very small company, or you know, very

26:14modern company use box and Dropbox as

26:16storage mechanisms. And yeah, being able to

26:18connect to data sets in those places is

26:21going to be super handy.

26:22It's probably going to be much easier than

26:24using something like SharePoint. In all

26:26honesty, so yeah, that's that's going to be

26:28nice, especially if it's behind a virtual

26:30connection. New accelerators on Tableau

26:32exchange. As I said, Tableau exchange keeps

26:35growing, they keep adding new accelerators.

26:36They've added new ones, and they've done

26:38major upgrades on the existing ones. Let's

26:41check out what they mean by major upgrades.

26:43I'm always intrigued. Sometimes this

26:46marketing stuff is just, it's just so

26:49deceptive. Okay, I mean, I've always, I'm,

26:54I'm very critical of a lot of the stuff on

26:57the Tableau exchange and extensions.

26:59Sorry, accelerators in particular, because

27:01a lot of them, I don't think they follow

27:03best practice design. So if you go on the

27:06exchange, what they have started doing is

27:07adding some fantastic extensions, sorry, I

27:10keep saying extensions, fantastic acceler

27:13ators on the exchange, done by partners.

27:17And you can see people on Tableau Public

27:18kind of angling to get themselves in this

27:21sort of line of work as well. So be sure to

27:23look out for that as well. So these are

27:25getting better. And I have to give Tableau

27:27credit where it's due, they're doing the

27:29work.

27:30What you have to remember with every

27:31platform, this is probably what I haven't

27:33said enough is that when you start out, you

27:35have to be scrappy, you have to get things

27:36up rather than perfect. So it's good to get

27:38things up, people can critique them, they

27:41can start offering value to someone because

27:43if all you're worried about is design.

27:45Well, what Tableau have done here with the

27:46connections, I just smacked my mic,

27:48apologies for that. And what Tableau have

27:49done here with the connections is they've

27:51got everything set up for you. So you can

27:53kind of use that connection in that work

27:55book as a resource.

27:56What I would love is to be able to break

27:58down these assets into the atomic bits. So

28:02let's say I see this workbook, and I see,

28:03oh, wow, they're calculating the weighted

28:05pipeline value. In order to do that, they

28:08must have created the relationship between

28:10this table, this table, this table.

28:12Well, could I just borrow the connection

28:14from this workbook, and you can grab the

28:16connection and do whatever you want with it

28:18, knowing the logic in there enables you to

28:20calculate a specific measure, or being able

28:22to pick a shopping list of measures and say

28:25, oh, I would like to download a workbook

28:27with just these measures in them.

28:29And then when you download the workbook, it

28:31doesn't give you the design of the

28:33dashboard because it needs other metrics,

28:35but you just get a ready to go workbook,

28:37literally hot off the press, and you can

28:40just start building stuff. And then the

28:42really, really smart stuff is when

28:45tablet updates this stuff to meet new logic

28:47or new capabilities in Salesforce or other

28:49platforms, those changes can kind of be p

28:51inged to you as the author of a workbook to

28:54say, hey, these changes have been made to

28:56the original asset. Do you want to bring

28:58them down into your workbook?

29:00I know that's a pretty complicated set of

29:01sort of sequences to get and the tablet

29:03platform probably isn't ready for that, but

29:05that's classic kind of stuff that's really

29:08powerful here. When you can scale work

29:09through the platform, that's going to be

29:11that's where time savings come from.

29:14That's just a really important part of how

29:16everything works.

29:18Improve sharing in Tableau Mobile. Okay,

29:20you can now share content with other Table

29:22au users in Tableau Mobile to ensure you're

29:24working off the same information. Recip

29:26ients will receive a notification and have

29:28shared content appear in the shared with me

29:31section.

29:32It's pretty nice. Web Data Connector

29:34version three. There's a new there's now a

29:36new developer experience for creating

29:38connectors to web application data via API

29:40's. Web Data Connector version three

29:42provides a toolkit with everything you need

29:45to develop a connector in a single package.

29:48Additionally, Web Data Connectors are now T

29:50ACO files. Okay, so that's kind of cool. TAC

29:53O files are the standard file format for all

29:56connectors on Tableau Exchange and if you

29:58use the connector SDK, which is a software

30:01development kit for building a connector

30:04that Tableau can use to connect to a data

30:05set.

30:06They also create a TACO. So the TACO is

30:08becoming the standardized file format for

30:10connecting to anything, whether it's Web

30:12Data Connector or Connector SDK itself.

30:14That's really, really good to see. Share

30:17Point lists. So what happened in the

30:19previous releases is they brought around a

30:22new SharePoint file connector, essentially.

30:26This is an enhancement to the SharePoint

30:28lists capability. So with the new connector

30:31in Tableau Cloud and the Tableau Exchange.

30:34Let me read that again. The new connector

30:36for SharePoint lists in Tableau Cloud and

30:38the Tableau Exchange.

30:40Oh, okay. The SharePoint list connector

30:42must be in the Tableau Exchange then. Users

30:44can access data in SharePoint lists

30:45directly from Tableau. This connector also

30:48supports Azure AD authentication.

30:51I have to check that out. Improvements on

30:53our data. We continue to extend the

30:54availability of our data. Adding our data

30:56to a dashboard is now smoother than ever.

30:58Supported end to end in Tableau desktop. So

31:01this is great. You don't have to go off

31:05somewhere else to add our state to your

31:07dashboard, essentially.

31:09We're increasing visibility to manage our

31:11state inside dashboards. Analysts can

31:13decide to show or hide our state. Okay.

31:15This was in 2022.2. It's now in Tableau

31:18server. See, even says that previous

31:20release in Tableau 2022 is now available

31:23for server in 22.3.

31:25I keep getting called out by this stuff.

31:27Metrics improvements. Create metrics to

31:29track key data points without having to

31:31access your dashboard and edit them at any

31:33time. You can now come back and edit

31:35existing metrics to change the historical

31:38comparison period, the date range used by

31:41the metric, and the status indicators.

31:43Additionally, you can dynamically explore

31:46different date windows whilst analyzing the

31:49metric without editing configuration. Okay,

31:53so previously again, just to the right, I

31:55got caught out. Done in 22.2. Now in 22.3

31:58for Tableau server.

32:00This is the same. Yeah, this is the same.

32:13So I think these last few are secretly or

32:13yeah, these are all previously released. So

32:14I'm not going to go through these in detail

32:14because these are all part of it. In fact,

32:15I probably have videos for all of these

32:18already in actually do have videos for some

32:21of those already.

32:22So this is a new one and the following

32:24connector is available now on Tableau

32:26exchange. Firebolt. Let's go check that out

32:29. What is Firebolt? Firebolt analytics. Fire

32:32bolt connected Tableau is, can we go to

32:34developer? Let's go to the developer

32:36website.

32:37Talk to us. Firebolt. Firebolt. Boom. Lots

32:40of Firebolt. Engineer, subsecond and

32:42analytics experience. Wow, subsecond. I don

32:45't think I could think in subsecond speed so

32:48that won't help me. Fasten anything you've

32:51seen at data lake scale.

32:53I love how everything in analytics is about

32:55speed. I'm just a humble person. I don't

32:58work anywhere near as fast as the people

33:01here have aspirations for me to work as

33:03fast. So everything is always about speed,

33:06scale, agility. God, it's just, it's always

33:10funny how marketing works, isn't it?

33:12So that's that. Let's go back. I think that

33:15's it that we've done the list without

33:17realizing it. If I go back here, maybe I

33:20lost my others are coming soon page. So

33:23that is everything in the release. What a

33:24funny set of releases.

33:26Hey, so again, I think this list is shorter

33:28in real terms once you take out all the

33:30stuff that was previously in 22.2 and is

33:33now in 22.3. That said, there are some good

33:37features in here. Really, really good. What

33:40I will do, I will do a video analyzing like

33:44what percentage of these features are

33:45behind a paywall.

33:47By that I mean, you have to purchase a

33:49additional product and tablet generally

33:51hate the term add on. They call them add on

33:54s when they launch and then they sort of

33:56remove that from all their marketing.

33:59They don't want you to think of it as an

34:00add on. But you know, it is an additional

34:03expense. Some of them are charged based on

34:05the number of users. So there's a certain

34:07price per number of users.

34:09And the pricing constantly changes. So

34:10tablets obviously clearly trying to find

34:12the right place for all of these products.

34:14But nonetheless, yeah, that's pretty much

34:16the whole set of features. Okay, so there

34:18we have it all the features in this release

34:20.

34:21It's been super interesting. It has taken a

34:23bit longer to get here. I don't know why

34:24but it felt dogs here, but we're going to

34:28carry on anyway. It's felt like it's taken

34:30a lot longer to get these features out.

34:33I don't know what happened to the beta

34:34program in this particular release. And

34:37there's definitely a lot of fluctuation in

34:39the way the pre release mechanism is being

34:41handled. And it just means that sort of

34:45more inconsistent sort of release cadence

34:48because what normally happens to the pre

34:50release is that people get hold of it.

34:53And these features sort of trickle out and

34:54you can actually get a little bit of

34:55feedback and response from the community. I

34:57've always wondered how many people actually

34:59channel that community in a constructive

35:00way. I'm sure that's probably a problem

35:02that tablet well aware or well aware of.

35:05And for the record tablet do actually

35:06consult people when they build in these

35:08features, they then just turn up with them.

35:11And if you're part of the community program

35:12, and tablet do actually reach out to

35:14members of the community and ask them, Hey,

35:16what do you think of this feature?

35:18Quite a lot of the features in this release

35:20, I've actually seen before myself as part

35:22of that program. So they're not 100% new to

35:24me. But it's always interesting what makes

35:26it to the final release and how it's

35:28packaged, which is why earlier on, I said,

35:30Hey, some of this stuff is interesting,

35:32because it's actually multiple features

35:34packaged into one feature, I think data

35:35guide is a really, really good one.

35:37So that's going to be really interesting to

35:39see how it all lands. The other thing is,

35:41of course, capabilities behind additional

35:43products, as tabular would like to call

35:45them. And that's also going to be an

35:47interesting dynamic once people realize,

35:49hey, these are all the features.

35:51And by the way, because I'm a server

35:52customer, I didn't get 22.2. So not only am

35:56I not getting the features I should get,

35:58but actually a lot of the features in 22.2

36:01were tabular cloud specific, and some of

36:03the features in this release are also cloud

36:05specific.

36:07So it feels like if you're a server

36:08customer, you're getting half the number of

36:10features as you would naturally expect. It

36:12's a little bit of sticking carrot, of

36:14course, how they would love you to move to

36:16the cloud where they can serve you all

36:18these wonderful features. But nonetheless,

36:21it is what it is.

36:21So in this release, when the features come

36:23out, we'll do the videos as always now,

36:25because the pre release wasn't so

36:27forthcoming. When the new release comes out

36:30, the videos will take a bit of time to come

36:32out.

36:33Normally, what I do is before the actual

36:34release, because I have the pre release, I

36:36can test these features. As long as the

36:38features are stable, I actually make some

36:40of the videos ahead of time, the stuff that

36:41really works well, I'll make those videos

36:43ahead of time.

36:44So that on launch day, one or two days

36:45after I can get these things out. However,

36:48that's kind of tricky now. And because you

36:50kind of need time to try these things out.

36:53So what I'll probably do is try and cover

36:54one feature every single day.

36:56The other thing I have an issue with is

36:58YouTube actually YouTube hates it when I

37:00publish all my videos in one day. And by h

37:03ater, I mean it won't notify and won't show

37:06you those videos for a really long time.

37:09So if I for example, post five videos, and

37:11you follow me and you even take the allow

37:14notifications, only like 10% or so people

37:17actually take that.

37:19They'll only notify you of one of my videos

37:21in a given period of time. And that's

37:23completely arbitrary based on your usage of

37:25YouTube and so on and so forth.

37:27And so you could easily go four or five

37:29days after I posted a video without knowing

37:31that I've actually posted five or 10 videos

37:34about the new release.

37:36So what I'm going to do is I'm going to

37:37only release one video every single day.

37:40But here's the catch.

37:42I will have all the videos available

37:44immediately inside of the playlist for that

37:46release. So if you go to my public 2022 dot

37:48three playlist, if you look in that list,

37:52as I make the videos, they'll be available

37:53there, but they'll be unlisted.

37:56So essentially, it's like I've made the

37:57video public, but I've actually not

37:58promoted it. And then when it goes live,

38:01they become they don't, they're not un

38:02listed anymore.

38:04And they can go out to the community. And

38:05because I'm doing that every day, hopefully

38:07more people should see those as it goes out

38:09.

38:10The last thing is also why have I not made

38:11videos for a long time? Well, so many

38:14things, so many things. As you can see, the

38:16arrangement in the room is slightly

38:17different.

38:18I used to sit facing that way and decided

38:20to sit facing this way. A whole bunch of,

38:23you know, set up logistic logistic stuff in

38:26my room.

38:27I pride my setup a lot. I'm a tech lover. I

38:30love technology.

38:31So I spent a bit of time re changing my

38:32setup for very little value. But actually,

38:35it makes it more enjoyable for me to sit

38:37here at this desk recording videos, do work

38:41when I'm at work, and just, you know, have

38:43thoughts and think about things.

38:44The other thing is I actually been doing

38:46some work for a company that I can't say

38:48too much about until December.

38:51But what I will say is, if you want to find

38:53out more about what that is, follow me not

38:55just here on YouTube, of course, and

38:57Twitter and the usual places, but

38:59especially on LinkedIn.

39:01So in December, hopefully, I'll be able to

39:02share a lot more with you about what that

39:04is. I'm super excited for us spent a lot of

39:06time working on it in the last month or so.

39:09The lead time for this has been like over a

39:11year, you know, the discussion. So this

39:13started last year.

39:14And it's only now that we're actually

39:15getting everything across the finish line.

39:18So super, super excited to see how that

39:20lands, how you guys find that and what you

39:22think of it.

39:23And now, as we go to the end of the year,

39:24this is always when stuff gets exciting.

39:27This is this to me is always the start of a

39:29new year for me.

39:30And in November, I'm probably going to

39:33change things up a lot, because I have a

39:36lot more time on my hands.

39:38I'll say more about why I have more time on

39:40my hands in November, specifically in

39:43November. And but when I get there, I'm

39:44going to be making a lot more content, and

39:45kind of following on that promise of

39:47talking more about all tricks and snowflake

39:50century.

39:50So I have a setup, I've got some content

39:52ideas, I've got a content plan, we're going

39:54to get through that. And so that's

39:56essentially what I've been doing.

39:58So although it's been quiet for the last

40:00few weeks, it's not been quiet at all in by

40:02any measure. And of course, I'm also a

40:05recent dad. So spending time with a family

40:08that's always number one.

40:10And so that's, that's pretty much taken my

40:12time. So I've got these dark circles behind

40:15my eyes, I have to switch on, I actually

40:17have lighting underneath the table to make

40:20sure the shadows don't show up so bad if I,

40:23oh, there's a door by technology.

40:26If I switch these off, you can see the

40:29slightly less flattering look that I get

40:32because of these circles. So there's a

40:34little bit of movie magic for you there to

40:37see that. But anyway, thank you for

40:38watching. Thank you for staying until the

40:40end.

40:41If you stayed all the way till the end, you

40:43're gonna get something special, all the

40:46wonderful bloopers that I cut out my videos

40:49, I'm going to start leaving at the end for

40:52everyone who watches this channel as a

40:54little treat. And thank you for staying

40:56until the end so you can really see what

40:57goes on behind the craziness that is

40:57editing on the tablets and channel. Thanks

40:58for watching. I'll catch you in the next

41:03one.

41:05Hopefully you can't hear the dog.

41:08I'll just get going.

41:10Maybe not.

41:19Am I clear?

41:23Maybe I am.

41:25I think I am. Let's go.