Offline map support for in web authoring

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

0:01here to show you about a new feature in

0:03Tableau Server

0:04enabling offline map support for Tableau

0:07Server. I'm actually on Tableau Online

0:08where the feature

0:09is there, it's not actually an issue on

0:11Tableau Online because inherently Tableau

0:13Online always

0:13has access to the mapping capabilities, but

0:16on Tableau Server you might actually want

0:18to disable

0:19the ability for the Tableau Server to

0:21connect to the Tableau's own mapping

0:23servers and essentially

0:24just enable offline maps so you get some

0:27sort of a map but you don't connect to the

0:29public internet

0:30to go and get the map tiles for that

0:32particular map. If you use that feature, if

0:34you work in,

0:35for example, banking environments where

0:39internet is very heavily restricted, that's

0:42going to be a

0:43problem when you're creating any sort of

0:44mapping attributes. So let me show you how

0:46that works.

0:47If you go here to the map option at the

0:49very top and you go to background maps, you

0:51'll see that

0:52there is now an offline map option, that's

0:54pretty much the feature in a nutshell.

0:56Before I switch to

0:56this, let me go to the map layers option so

0:58you can just see the difference between the

1:01online

1:01version and the offline version. On the

1:03online version I get this drop down showing

1:05me all the

1:06different things that I can switch on,

1:08disable and so on and so forth. I can add a

1:09bit of terrain,

1:10coastline and it actually changes the map

1:12here in the background, you can see that

1:14that refresh there.

1:15If I go over to the offline version, you

1:17actually lose a lot of that so you don't

1:19have as much

1:20control. Essentially it's just a static

1:22image of the tiles but it gives you some

1:24resemblance of a

1:25map if you want to visualize it. If I just

1:27zoom out here, I still get the world map

1:29loading up

1:30in the background and this is actually

1:32quite handy because it means that I can

1:34still visualize what I

1:35need to without worrying too much about

1:36whether users have access to the internet

1:38or not. So

1:39that's a nice feature to have there, it's a

1:41nice sort of quality of life improvement if

1:43you work in

1:43an environment where that was a small issue

1:45. That's pretty much the feature in a

1:47nutshell,

1:47there's not much more to show here. If you

1:49haven't noticed I'm actually using a work

1:51book that I built

1:52in a previous demo showing how you can

1:55actually use Tableau prep to blend spatial

1:58files to data

1:59sets and what I did is I published that

2:02data source over here to Tableau online and

2:04I'm now

2:05using that in this demo. So check out that

2:07video in the pop-up on the screen and also

2:09in the

2:09description below. Otherwise if you've

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