Tableau Omnibox in data connection Window | New in Tableau 2023.2

0:00Hey it's Tim here. Have you ever wondered

0:01what an Omnibox is in Tableau? Well to find

0:05out, as ever,

0:06let's get stuck in. So here we are in Table

0:08au cloud. The Omnibox is quite simple, it's

0:11this

0:11little search area up here. When you click

0:13into the search box, the Omnibox is

0:15essentially this

0:16interface that pops up. So as I start to

0:19search for a data set or anything, it

0:21starts to contextualize

0:23my search and immediately shows me some

0:25things that I've, you know, recently

0:27accessed. So if I,

0:28for example, go to this top sales flow, I

0:30click on it and you'll see that it takes me

0:32directly there.

0:33Then if I go back in here and I start

0:36typing sales flow and I hit enter, it will

0:39actually go to the

0:40search area and it won't find anything in

0:41this particular case because nothing is

0:43called sales

0:43flow. But if I go back to my home page and

0:45now I type in sales, you can see it

0:47actually has a

0:48sales flow search that I previously did. So

0:50the Omnibox does a couple of things. It

0:52makes searching

0:53a lot easier and it remembers previous

0:55searches. What's the big deal though? Well

0:58in 23.2 they've

0:59added this to the connect dialog phase. So

1:02essentially when you go to set up a new

1:04workbook,

1:04let's go ahead and do that, you'll get this

1:07little pop-up and this also happens in

1:09desktop.

1:09When you get this dialog you'll see this

1:11interface pop up and when we click into the

1:13search data field

1:14the Omnibox should appear. Now I'm not

1:16getting exactly the same behavior as I do

1:18get in the

1:19Omnibox. Maybe there's a little bit of a

1:21rollout and just some sort of phased

1:23deployment but

1:23nonetheless if I go ahead and type in sales

1:26person in this case and then enter, you'll

1:29see the

1:29Omnibox actually behaves exactly the same

1:32way as it does on Tableau search pages. So

1:34here we go,

1:35we can go ahead and select this and we can

1:37say okay yeah this is the one we're

1:38actually interested

1:39in. We double click it and once we've found

1:41what we found it immediately connects to it

1:43here in

1:44Tableau. You can just see that it's

1:45connected there. Let's just make sure this

1:47fits screen

1:48and yeah we can actually just start using

1:50this and visualizing the data that we would

1:52otherwise

1:52use. So that's pretty much it that is the

1:54Omnibox. It's new in 23.2 that it's

1:56actually part of the

1:57Connect window dialog so whenever you go to

1:59connect to a new data source and you start

2:02typing

2:03into this search area here this Omnibox is

2:05the new experience. The nice thing about it

2:07is it also has

2:08filters, it also allows you to filter by

2:10certified data sets and you can obviously

2:12give it some more

2:13context for example whether you're looking

2:15at data sources, virtual connections,

2:17databases and tables

2:19as well. So that's really nice to have.

2:20That's pretty much it for this video.

2:22Thanks for watching

2:22and I'll see you in the next one.

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