0:00In Tableau 22.2 Tableau now supports native
0:02browser printing. It took a while but it's
0:05finally
0:05here. Let's get stuck in. Okay so I'm here
0:07on a dashboard that's showing the data
0:09storage
0:09capability. The reason I've gone to this
0:11dashboard is because the native browser
0:13printing also
0:14supports printing of extensions.
0:16Essentially anything in an extension gets
0:19rendered and
0:19this particular data stories element is
0:21actually an extension. So we're going to
0:23check to see how
0:24it renders. Now the cool thing about this
0:27is you can just hit command p or control p
0:29on windows
0:30and it instantly renders what you'd see in
0:32the print preview and you can go from here
0:34and
0:34essentially print it out. You do have more
0:36settings depending on the browser that you
0:39're
0:39using so the browser will typically render
0:41the settings in different ways so just be
0:43sure to
0:43check the settings but in essence you can
0:45control pretty much everything you'd expect
0:47to control.
0:48The size of the paper, how many pages per
0:50sheet and you can even change the scaling.
0:52Now one thing
0:52I found difficult here in Chrome, I'm not
0:54sure if this is just a Chrome thing or if
0:56it's a feature
0:56specific thing but if you choose the
0:58default scaling it essentially just takes
1:00the visualization
1:01and puts it onto A4 in the native
1:03resolution of the visualization. There's
1:05nothing smart that
1:06sort of scales it to fit the page. I couldn
1:08't find anything that just says fit to page
1:11so that's a
1:11little bit frustrating. The other thing you
1:13could do and I used to actually prefer
1:14doing this is
1:15downloading the pdf, selecting an
1:17unspecified paper size, then printing that
1:20because essentially that
1:21meant that the pdf you got was the highest
1:23resolution. This is essentially going to
1:26downscale
1:26whatever you're looking at to fit the paper
1:29size so it's sometimes going to be the less
1:31detailed
1:32thing to get. However if you print a pdf
1:34you've always got the capability to blow it
1:37up or make
1:37it smaller or make it larger however you
1:39like in whatever software you then use that
1:41pdf in.
1:42So that's something just to bear in mind
1:44but nonetheless this is pretty good. When
1:46you're
1:46done setting all of this up you can just
1:48hit print. I've actually got a print
1:50example just
1:51right here so now it's much much easier to
1:52print in Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud.
1:54I don't know who prints documents but if
1:56you're making packs sometimes these can
1:59sort of
1:59form the basis of those packs. People do
2:01things like report bursting to get these
2:03out
2:04and then send that out as like physical
2:05documents which is a bit of a weird thing
2:07to do in a digital
2:08application but nonetheless that's
2:10something that people ask. That's pretty
2:12much it, there's not much
2:13more to show and this is a feature that
2:15should have been here a long long time ago
2:17so let me
2:17know what you think about this feature if
2:19this is going to change the way you work in
2:20the comments
2:21below and i'll catch you in the next video.
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