Autosave - New in Tableau 2022.1

0:00When Tableau Prep came to the browser and

0:01we got WebEdit for Tableau Prep,

0:03one of the features we wanted to see in Web

0:05Edit for desktop was auto-saving.

0:08This is now possible in 22.2. Let's get

0:11stuck in.

0:11Now I've literally just come off a

0:13recording about the new formatting

0:14capabilities,

0:15hence you can see the formatting is awful

0:17on this dashboard at the moment.

0:19But what I want to highlight is this draft

0:21option here at the top.

0:23You can see that it says draft because

0:24essentially I'm working on this and what I

0:26'm going to do is

0:27I'm just going to open up a new tab and I'm

0:28not going to save anything here.

0:30I'm just going to go ahead and go over to

0:32the right-hand side, go to online.tableau.

0:34com.

0:34This should log me back into the same

0:36instance of Tableau.

0:38In fact, it's going to want me to sign in

0:39again just to make sure that I'm still in

0:42the same

0:42session. And when I do that, I arrive here

0:45and what I'm going to do is just close this

0:47tab

0:47and we're not going to save it. We're not

0:49going to hit publish. We're not going to do

0:50anything.

0:50Now that that's happened, what we can do is

0:53we can try and see if we can go back to

0:54that work

0:55and see if it saved an autosave draft. Now

0:58to find that workbook, what I'm going to

1:00need to do

1:00is find the workbook called Superstore and

1:02I'll just go ahead and select that over

1:04there.

1:05And when I go to it, you'll notice at the

1:06very, very top, there is this big fat tab

1:10that says

1:10draft. You edited this workbook four

1:12minutes ago. This is while I was recording

1:14the video about

1:15formatting. And so what I can actually do

1:17is hop right back into that, continue

1:19editing, and it

1:20should pick up exactly where I left off

1:22with all that horrible formatting on screen

1:25. Now let's just

1:25wait for this to load and see what happens.

1:28Now what it's actually done is not, it's

1:30not, it's not

1:30picked up exactly where I left off. It's

1:32actually dropped me in another tab. But if

1:34I go back to

1:35this particular tab, I think it sells by

1:37products too, we can actually see exactly

1:39what was going

1:40on. So it's nearly there. It might've just

1:42been that it didn't have a chance to save

1:44the exact

1:45spot in the session where I was. But

1:47nonetheless, the draft is saved. Everything

1:49that I'd just done

1:50with the formatting is there. And now if I

1:52wanted to go ahead and save this, I can

1:54absolutely go

1:55ahead and do that. Hit publish. And this

1:57will go up to the server and will overwrite

1:59the existing

2:00piece of work. So you'll see that it's

2:02publishing at the moment, just over here at

2:05the top right

2:05hand side. And as soon as that publish is

2:08done, you'll notice that you lose that

2:10draft status that

2:11was over here at the top with Superstore

2:13because at this very moment, I haven't made

2:15any changes.

2:16I've saved over the existing work, which

2:17means there is no draft. There doesn't need

2:19to be one

2:19because there's no change been made. Now,

2:22if I then go ahead and change something

2:24here, let's

2:24change this background color to black, make

2:27it even worse. You'll see that the draft

2:29status comes

2:30immediately back right there. And yeah, we

2:32're back into draft status. And now if I

2:34close this run off,

2:35I forget to do anything. Draft will still

2:38be there. So that's autosave in Web edits

2:41is really

2:41nice to have. About time we've had this in

2:43Tableau prep for a long time. So it's good

2:45to get parity

2:45across the product. Thanks for watching,

2:48and I'll catch you in the next video.

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