In-product Tableau Exchange -New in Tableau 2022.2

0:00As Tableau continues to build out the Table

0:01au exchange, more and more of that is making

0:04its way into the desktop editing experience

0:06.

0:06Tableau have now added Accelerators to the

0:08in-product experience. Let's get stuck in.

0:11So we're here in Tableau Desktop, I haven't

0:13opened anything at all and I've moved my

0:15face to the left hand side just to make it

0:17a little bit different.

0:18So when we open the product for the first

0:20time, normally along the bottom you're used

0:22to seeing these templates and these are now

0:24called Accelerators.

0:25I think the term Accelerators is just

0:27confusing, they should just call this

0:29templates, that's what they are.

0:31They're not accelerators, they need a lot

0:33of work, they are just templates, they're

0:35starting points.

0:35And I think that confuses a lot of people

0:37by calling them that because there's also

0:39another feature called Dashboard Acceler

0:41ation

0:42and it just makes the whole sort of e

0:44tymology of everything just weird. Anyway,

0:47these templates, which is what I'm going to

0:49call them,

0:49live along the bottom and now there's a new

0:52option over here that allows you to open up

0:55the ones on the exchange.

0:56So let's go ahead and do that. Let's go

0:59ahead and select more accelerators and just

1:01like we get for extensions,

1:03you now get this pop-up just for the

1:04accelerators and you can of course start

1:06searching these and start working with them

1:08.

1:08So this is just the accelerators that we've

1:11seen on the Tableau exchange and you can

1:13open them up straight from the product.

1:15You can search by theme, you can go through

1:17the categories, you can search by language,

1:19by connection type,

1:20maybe there's a specific data source that

1:22you want. At the moment, this is a fairly

1:24limited list,

1:25but I'm sure as they start to expand this

1:27over time, this will get a lot, lot better.

1:29One thing I'm going to search is an

1:30extension that I know one of my colleagues

1:32has built, so we'll just call this Tableau

1:35Server

1:36and we'll see if it can actually find it

1:38and you'll see that the search

1:39functionality isn't great.

1:41I think it's because I have this all

1:43categories not selected.

1:45So actually when we search it does actually

1:47find it correctly and you can see that this

1:48Tableau Server usage example is available.

1:51When we go ahead and click on it, what it

1:53will do is it'll open up another page,

1:55essentially the page that we've seen in the

1:57Tableau exchange and we can scroll down and

1:59it just opens up a nice little web browser.

2:01So you can get a little bit of a sense of

2:03what's going on here.

2:04Now, I think this might be because I'm

2:08using a beta version of the desktop.

2:10And so this image is not actually loading.

2:12It's unable to sort of go ahead and get the

2:14Tableau visualizations actually loading in

2:17this space for me to see that.

2:18I wish there was a thumbnail here at the

2:21top so I didn't have to scroll down to see

2:22the actual thing,

2:23but we get everything else from the web

2:25page and that's absolutely brilliant.

2:27When we go ahead and select open, what it

2:29actually does is it opens up the exact

2:31dashboard.

2:32Now in this case, because I had something

2:34open already, it's going to open it in

2:35another tab, I believe.

2:36So we're just going to wait a second.

2:37It's going to open this in another window

2:39to open it on another screen.

2:41So let's bring this in here.

2:42Wait for this to load.

2:43Once that's loaded up, you can of course

2:46get this.

2:46And so this is great.

2:47This is a really, really nice dashboard and

2:50you can then start working with this and

2:51all you need to do because it's a template.

2:53You can of course open up a new sheet.

2:57I can't do that because my face is in the

2:59way.

2:59So let's open up a new sheet and you can

3:01essentially just go in here,

3:03right click, edit the data source and start

3:05switching in your own connections and

3:06essentially get this to update to match

3:08your server.

3:09So this is the templates really, really

3:12working as they should do.

3:14Tab we can call them accelerators if they

3:15want to.

3:15But yeah, this is essentially templates.

3:18The in-product exchanges now start to sort

3:20of take more of a life.

3:21I still wish we could get TDX data sources

3:24in here.

3:25Technically, technically you can.

3:26So if I go to this little icon over here at

3:29the very, very top left hand side,

3:32you'll see the data sources here on the

3:33left hand side.

3:34If I go and connect to one, if I go and

3:37select more, you'll see I get this list and

3:40you'll see there's additional connectors

3:42here.

3:42And these are technically coming from the

3:45exchange.

3:46What I would love is for there just to be

3:48an exchange option in here that would then

3:50go and get them all of them.

3:51But nonetheless, you do have some

3:52additional connectors here.

3:53If you click on this little icon, it does

3:55sell you the look.

3:56These connectors are made available through

3:58the Tableau exchange.

3:59Installation is required.

4:01So what I would love is for these

4:02connectors to be installed in a very, very

4:05seamless,

4:06native way. I think at the moment when I

4:08select these, I will be able to click

4:11install and restart and it will come.

4:13But I think it has to leave a file in a

4:15specific location.

4:16And let's just try this now.

4:18And okay, let's go ahead and retry this.

4:21So this is Agiloft.

4:24Let's hit OK. I'll just see if this is

4:26actually as seamless as I thought it would

4:29be.

4:30Okay, it didn't actually restart for me.

4:33So let's go ahead and do that myself.

4:36Let's just close that. So now what you see

4:38is the web edit.

4:39Let's open up Tableau desktop again.

4:43Every time I look to the left, I'm looking

4:45at another screen.

4:46That's my main screen so that nothing opens

4:49up here unnecessarily during the middle of

4:51a demo.

4:52So here we are. We can open this workbook.

4:54We're going to go back to the connections.

4:56And the Agilsoft connector is what we're

5:01looking for.

5:01So it's no longer in this list. And now we

5:03've got 19 rather than 18.

5:06But now where is this appear to there it is

5:08very very top.

5:09It's added itself into the installed

5:11connectors list.

5:11So now when I go ahead and click on that,

5:13we do get everything working.

5:15So it's it is actually quite seamless.

5:17I think I was a bit unfair saying that the

5:20capability wasn't in here.

5:21It is in here. It's just not exactly

5:23working how I expected.

5:24So this is quite nice. Now it says 1918

5:28connectors.

5:29I'm fairly confident there should be more

5:31connectors.

5:32So let's just go ahead. I'm just going to

5:34go to the exchange itself.

5:35And we're just going to see how many

5:36connectors there are Tableau exchange.

5:39And we'll go to the connectors over here.

5:43So there were 19 when I logged in.

5:46There's no easy way of sort of aggregating

5:48this.

5:48So we'll just say okay if there's four per

5:50row,

5:51we've got one two three four five six seven

5:55.

5:55So that's it's about right actually and

5:57that is about the amount of connectors that

5:59are there.

6:00And this is the agile soft connector right

6:02here.

6:02So in essence you could actually argue that

6:06the title in products exchange is actually

6:08appropriate.

6:09Everything that you'd want from the

6:11connectors is available here.

6:12I started off this video by saying that was

6:14impossible and you watch me learn that that

6:16is not correct.

6:18So that's it. You can now pretty much

6:21connect to everything in the exchange in

6:23one place

6:23without ever having to go to the exchange

6:25itself.

6:26It's nice to have that actually it's a very

6:27very important sort of small win.

6:30But nonetheless if we go back to this page

6:33and we go ahead,

6:34let's say connect to a particular workbook.

6:36Let's open this one that we'd opened up

6:38before the final piece of this puzzle is

6:40that of course,

6:40you can drag a dashboard or workbook

6:42extension into the view and this loads up

6:45the extensions as well.

6:46So we've got extensions we've got

6:48connectors

6:49and we've got accelerators all inside of

6:51the product and fire away start using this.

6:54The jury's still out on the accelerators in

6:56my opinion the extensions.

6:57I think are pretty cool. The connectors are

7:00pretty cool.

7:00But for me the jury's still out on the

7:02accelerators which I call templates,

7:04but we'll see how those improve over time

7:06as more and more people start making great

7:07ones.

7:08Like my colleague has done here for Tableau

7:10server.

7:11Thanks for watching and I'll catch you in

7:14the next video.