How to find *ALL* new features or changes in any release of Tableau

0:00Hey it's Tim here, in today's video I'm

0:01going to show you how to find out

0:03everything new in a new

0:04release of Tableau. Now this might seem

0:06obvious because of course Tableau have this

0:07marketing

0:08page here that goes through all the new

0:10features, but there's always a small detail

0:12here which is it

0:13doesn't show absolutely everything that's

0:15changed as well as what's new in the

0:17current version of

0:18Tableau. So I thought I'd just make a very

0:20quick video on how to do exactly that. So

0:23over here you

0:23can see I'm on the release page and if I go

0:25down you'll see there's a sort of a list of

0:27headline

0:27features, there's also a list of things

0:29that you know resources they've got

0:31available for you to

0:32go check out some of those new features and

0:34then you have a bunch of items here. Now if

0:36I go

0:36through this list and I specifically say

0:39pick a Tableau server, in this particular

0:41list you'll

0:41see everything new with Tableau server and

0:44the thing I'm looking for here is something

0:46called

0:46zero downtime licensing which I know is new

0:49in 2021.1 but isn't necessarily on this

0:52list. Now if

0:53I go through this list and I can obviously

0:55go here to new product activation and you

0:57see they talk

0:58about something called server authorization

1:00to run but this isn't actually what I'm

1:01looking for,

1:02I'm looking for something called zero

1:04downtime licensing. So you're probably

1:05wondering well

1:06Tim how do you know that that's in this

1:08release and so there's actually a sort of a

1:11not well known

1:11page and that is actually in the

1:13documentation itself. If you go to the

1:15documentation for any

1:16version of Tableau it tells you what's new

1:18right at the top of the list. So I'll show

1:20you how to

1:20find that. I've actually got these two

1:22pages open here this is the one for Tableau

1:24desktop

1:25and altering in general across Tableau prep

1:27online and server but then you've also got

1:29this page

1:30which is just for Tableau server which is

1:32specific for on-premise versions of Tableau

1:34server. So how

1:35do you get to these pages? Well the biggest

1:37clue here is in this URL here you can just

1:39see here at

1:40the top I've got this sort of little bread

1:42crumb here and in this breadcrumb in all the

1:44Tableau

1:45server versions they have this hierarchy

1:47that tells you what's new right at the top.

1:49So how

1:50do you get to this page? Well first of all

1:51you have to be familiar with the Tableau

1:53website so

1:53let's go to the Tableau website and let's

1:56not go to my own website let's go to the

1:58Tableau website

1:59and if I can actually type at Tableau.com

2:03obviously go to my own website more than I

2:06go to

2:06Tableau website but if you go here you'll

2:08see there's a nice little link showing us

2:11what's

2:11going on. Let's just go to the just the the

2:13actual home page here and you'll see here

2:16that we find

2:17basically the home page and if I go to

2:19support if I go to products here you'll see

2:21there's a bunch

2:22of things now something I don't like that

2:24they've done is they've sort of buried the

2:26support. The

2:26support used to be up here at the top but

2:28it's now a little bit buried if you go down

2:30here to support

2:31you go to this page and it has a bunch of

2:33resources and information. If you scroll

2:35down and

2:36keep scrolling down you'll see that you

2:38have a bunch of other support links. Go to

2:40the version

2:41that you want let's say I want to go to

2:42Tableau desktop you'll see you arrive at

2:44this page which

2:45is a little bit more detailed and a little

2:46bit more thorough has some getting started

2:49questions

2:49but actually one of the things you want is

2:51the manuals and the guides so I just go

2:53over here to

2:53the see all option and now we're sort of in

2:56this Easter egg hunt very topical for this

2:58time of the

2:58year and now we've got to this page which

3:01again asks us what products we want to use.

3:03Now the key

3:04thing is you want to make sure that you

3:06select your version here on the left hand

3:08side you can

3:08actually go back in time and look at the

3:10manuals for all the previous versions which

3:12is actually

3:12a really really nice thing especially if

3:14you're using an older version maybe even up

3:16to version

3:1710.5 but I've got to tell you Tableau don't

3:19even support that version of Tableau

3:21anymore so if

3:21you're still on that definitely get an

3:23upgrade plan soon. So anyway you'll see

3:25here that you've

3:26got different versions now once you've got

3:28the right versions we're on the current

3:30version you

3:30want to select the most recent sort of list

3:33here so you can see here you get this

3:35additional menu

3:36and in this menu you have this what's new

3:38link when you hit that you actually go to

3:40this list

3:41and this list is the full list of

3:43everything that's been updated and at the

3:46very very very bottom

3:47if I go right down to the bottom I don't

3:49know why this is buried so far this is sort

3:51of where

3:51sometimes they bury bad news like things

3:53that have been depreciated sometimes you

3:55see things

3:56that have been changed in that version so

3:58sometimes this will include things like you

4:00know

4:01not supporting a certain driver or not

4:02doing something by standard but in this

4:04particular

4:05desktop version there isn't anything. If I

4:08go back here and I go to the Tableau server

4:10version let's

4:11just go here to Tableau server on Windows

4:13as an example you'll see there's another

4:14what's new link

4:15click on that and then you'll see this is

4:17specifically everything new in Tableau

4:20server

4:20for this release 2021.1 and you can see

4:23this list is actually quite long and you

4:25know I've got to be

4:26honest it's probably a good reason that

4:28these server features made it into the

4:30marketing on

4:30this page that I started with because they

4:33're not exactly the most thrilling of

4:35features to talk

4:36about but you can see here right at the top

4:37is the one that I was talking about zero

4:39downtime

4:40licensing and that's how I know that zero

4:42downtime licensing has been added to 2021.1

4:46. Now another

4:46thing to be aware of is right at the bottom

4:48of this they have this sort of I think this

4:50is a

4:50cheeky section called changed in 2021.1 and

4:54if you don't scroll to the bottom you won't

4:57realize for

4:58example that the behavior and certain

5:00things in Tableau server has changed and

5:02now listen you don't

5:03need to be well versed in this stuff but if

5:05it's something that's business critical I

5:07think backups

5:07is something that's business critical then

5:10I think you just do need to be aware that

5:11there's a

5:12change here there's something subtle and

5:14normally if the change is substantial they

5:15'll let you know

5:16up front but again if you have some sort of

5:18weird behavior that's doing something maybe

5:20the backups

5:21taking a little less time a little longer

5:23you just want to know why is that and this

5:25might have sort

5:26of the explanation and the reason for that

5:28so this is just a nice place to come to

5:30there's a lot of

5:31stuff in here there's new SAML

5:33configuration keys I mean I don't

5:34understand half this stuff but you

5:36know every so often you'll get a support

5:38ticket and if you check this page you'll

5:40just realize

5:40that actually that's why it's different

5:42because something has changed here and you

5:44can fix these

5:44problems very very quickly okay so that's

5:47basically how to find out what's new in

5:49every single version

5:50of Tableau going all the way back to

5:52version 10.4 it's a bit of an easter egg

5:54hunt I admit that

5:55but if you now know where it is hopefully

5:57you'll be able to find out everything new

5:59in every release

6:00um with each version and now there are also

6:03some cases where features do get released

6:05but they're

6:06not documented anywhere in the

6:07documentation and that is sort of uh sort

6:10of an edge case

6:11essentially what Tableau will do is if they

6:12would like you to test that they will send

6:14you the

6:15documentation links themselves it just won

6:17't appear in this documentation so sometimes

6:20sort

6:20of features get sort of released quietly

6:22essentially and to customers to test them

6:25to make sure they're

6:25stable and rigid enough for you know

6:27everyday enterprise use and then in the

6:29subsequent release

6:30they'll sort of publicize that this has

6:32been added to the version formally if that

6:34makes sense so

6:35that's how to find out everything new in a

6:36Tableau release I just thought I'd do that

6:38video because

6:39it's taking a while to sort of crunch

6:41through the 2021 stuff a lot of it is

6:44generally server

6:45related and I'm still spending time trying

6:47to figure out Einstein analytics and it's

6:49going to

6:49take me a while a little bit so whilst that

6:51's happening I thought I'd give you a

6:52resource so

6:53you can go and find out some of the

6:54information for yourself so you're not kept

6:56waiting for a

6:57video on the topics but of course we will

6:59get to videos on all these things this year

7:01I'm making

7:02the pledge to do videos on all the Tableau

7:03server releases that's something that

7:05everyone has been

7:06asking for so I am going to be spending

7:08some time doing a dedicated video on

7:10everything new on

7:11Tableau server in 2021 so stay tuned for

7:14that in the next couple of weeks it will

7:15take time to get

7:16through but unfortunately that's just the

7:18nature of how this release has gone with

7:20the lack of a

7:20beta okay so thanks for watching if you've

7:22enjoyed this video you know what to do I'll

7:25catch you in

7:25the next video and as always stay tuned and

7:32I'll catch you soon.