The new viz toolbar: New in Tableau 2022.1

0:00Hey it's Tim here. Today, a brief video on

0:02the new Viz toolbar that is new in 22.1.

0:05It's just a design change. Essentially,

0:08Tableau have updated this sort of top area

0:11of Tableau,

0:11and actually this is interesting because

0:13they first changed this back in version 10.

0:15That's

0:16when we actually got this sort of design

0:18with a dark blue banner going across the

0:20top, and as

0:21they've added features that banner became a

0:23bit congested. So what I've actually got

0:25here is I

0:26took a screenshot of the previous version

0:28and I've got it up against the current

0:30version.

0:31And essentially you can see that it just

0:33got so busy up there. So the top one is a

0:35new look,

0:36the bottom one is the old look. If we just

0:38scroll across here you'll see that that

0:40middle pane just

0:41got way too busy, and in essence it was

0:44kind of taking up a lot of space and it

0:46didn't make sense.

0:47So what you can see is they've sort of

0:49inverted the design a bit. So the the

0:52toolbar itself has

0:53sort of come down. This sort of bar that

0:56goes across this sort of big dark area has

0:58now become

0:59the main toolbar, so it actually has the

1:01most visual attention. The breadcrumbs have

1:04gone across

1:04the top, and you can see that just up here.

1:07And that also brings some very sort of good

1:11features

1:12when it comes to things like device layout,

1:15which also go across the top. And that was

1:18already there.

1:19Essentially that part of it hasn't actually

1:21changed. You can see that these are almost

1:23identical,

1:24but the bit that has changed is everything

1:26in between where this basically this list

1:29just became way too long. So what they've

1:31done is they've sort of grouped these up

1:33into more manageable groups. So you've got

1:35these groups here, and I'm going to switch

1:37over to

1:38Tableau to kind of show you what that looks

1:40like. So let's go back and we can actually

1:42take a look

1:42at these. Now depending on where you are in

1:44Tableau you'll see different things. For

1:47example

1:47in your personal space you might not see

1:49all these options because of course

1:51everything in your

1:51personal space is personal to you, so the

1:53share option won't be there because you can

1:55't share

1:55something that's supposed to be always

1:57private to you. But if you go to the watch

2:00section you now

2:01have the subscription metrics and alerts.

2:03This makes a lot of sense if you want to

2:04watch you

2:06know changes in this particular thing it

2:08makes sense that these are the ways to do

2:10that. I would

2:11have preferred a different sort of verb in

2:14my mind this should have been something

2:17else like track.

2:18Track makes a lot more sense because that

2:20is actually what you're doing you're

2:22tracking the

2:23metrics you're tracking the information

2:25with alerts you're doing it with

2:26subscriptions.

2:27That to me is sort of the more logical verb

2:29. Of course you watch visualizations I'm

2:32sure someone

2:32somewhere spent as much time maybe more

2:34time than I have thinking about this but to

2:37me track makes

2:37more sense that but that to me is the

2:39actual verb although ideally what they want

2:42to do is probably

2:43draw some synergies with the visualization

2:46you look at a visualization and look didn't

2:50make sense

2:50so they went with watch who knows let me

2:52know if you think I'm wrong on that one. If

2:55you want to

2:55add views or comments that's just the same

2:57old comment icon. I think this is

2:59interesting this

3:00is the only thing that has sort of its own

3:02button and I think this will change over

3:04time there is no

3:05doubt that this has been done to allow for

3:07more space. I think we have one group here

3:09which is

3:10watch I think there might be another group

3:12here which will be something else we don't

3:13know what

3:14that could be and if you're going to track

3:15something that might be one thing maybe you

3:17want

3:17to act on things they might be sort of

3:19things like extensions that allow you to

3:22take actions that

3:23could be another verb and there could be a

3:24drop down with lots of different things for

3:27example

3:27email converse all these things that could

3:29sort of happen but at the moment we've

3:31still got that

3:32spread across different tools like the

3:34commenting toolbar and so on and so forth.

3:36When it comes to

3:37downloading data of course we've got this

3:40download option this makes a lot of sense I

3:42don't like the

3:43icons here I don't think everyone knows

3:44that this icon means download it's a bit

3:46like the save icon

3:47it uses a floppy drive people haven't used

3:49floppy drive in decades but it's just the

3:52you know

3:52universal sign for saving something I think

3:54it's one of those things where over time I

3:57hope this

3:57changes but they've updated the icons these

3:59are nice and sharp and it makes sense that

4:01everything

4:02you need to download whether it's image

4:04data across type pdf it's all here in one

4:06place.

4:06This icon here just switches to full screen

4:08view and when you switch to full screen

4:10view that that

4:11bar across the top disappears so we've lost

4:13that there when you come out of it it comes

4:15back then

4:16of course you've got the share function the

4:18share function does exactly what it used to

4:19do before

4:20which is load this share sheet in the

4:22middle of the page so that's not changed so

4:24that's the new

4:24viz toolbar over on the left hand side I

4:27forgot to touch on these items here and

4:30this hasn't really

4:31changed that much all they've done is

4:32change the icon so you've got your forward

4:34and back

4:34you've got your reset which gets the

4:36visualization back to the beginning you've

4:39got the pause and

4:40refresh data sets which are these two icons

4:43you've got the newly added replay

4:45animations button that

4:46was added in the previous release I've got

4:48a video on that so check it out you've got

4:50the accelerated

4:52views button I'm really struggling with

4:54this particular feature because I basically

4:56can't

4:57find an example where it works and by work

5:00I mean an example where it actually says it

5:02can accelerate

5:03the view so I actually did a video and the

5:07conclusion of the video was I can't find

5:10anything

5:10that needs this feature and but then I

5:12thought now maybe I need to look a little

5:13bit harder so

5:14I'm going to try and build a data set try

5:16and make a live connection make this

5:18feature sort of work

5:19until we get something to work then we'll

5:21talk about the process and try and see if

5:23we can

5:24make it sort of more repeatable you've got

5:26the other bits of information here now you

5:28've got data

5:29details now this is a new area I think this

5:31is going to become an ever-increasing sort

5:33of a useful

5:34part of Tableau what I what I find jarring

5:37here is that the options over here but the

5:40change happens

5:41over there to me the data details should be

5:44over here on the right hand side and that

5:47should then

5:48appear there like if I'm clicking on

5:50something on the left it's a bit jarring

5:52when it appears over

5:53on the other side I know maybe that's where

5:55they want to put things but to me this

5:58makes the most

5:59sense over on the right side I don't know

6:01maybe it's just me then you've got the

6:03saved views and

6:04that makes sense because it's a modal and

6:06so I always think sometimes interface in

6:09Tableau is a

6:09little bit consistent you know inconsistent

6:13even why is this a modal and why is this a

6:16side pain

6:16and can I as a user choose where those

6:18things go I know it's kind of one of those

6:21weird things that

6:22um you know you maybe didn't think of but I

6:24would love in most other creative tools I

6:27could

6:27for example say oh can I pin this over here

6:29on the right and it becomes that becomes

6:31the home

6:32of that tool so if I want the custom views

6:34options on the right I can move it there um

6:36but giving me

6:37this what looks like a modal view but I

6:39even can't move it anywhere all I can do is

6:42click on it

6:43whereas in other cases if I go write a

6:45calculation it is modal if I go do a share

6:48sheet I can move it

6:49around there's just a lot of

6:50inconsistencies across the whole user

6:52interface and I'm not a

6:53uxx but I don't profess to know anything

6:56about it but when people form habits and

6:58then those habits

6:59aren't rewarded consistently that's when

7:02you start to get people not understanding

7:04how tools work so

7:05I like the new vis toolbar I like the

7:07direction I hope this is version one but I

7:10would really like

7:11um sort of more aspects of the interface

7:13really tidied up um why is it that I can

7:16drag that but

7:16I can't do that when I go to um view this

7:19you know this this to me should be modal as

7:22well I should be

7:23able to move that around it doesn't need to

7:25be but that would be great if this is in

7:27the sidebar over

7:28here I'd love to be able to undock it and

7:30make it modal so that I can do whatever I

7:32want that's sort

7:33of how tools work today so a few challenges

7:36there it's sort of one of those things

7:38where before no

7:39one said anything but now you've made an

7:40update you've shown people that there's

7:42some change to

7:43be done and so you know all the old issues

7:45sort of come out so look I think I've made

7:47this video

7:47far longer than it ought to be I didn't

7:49realize I was that passionate about ux

7:52until I started

7:53recording so if you've enjoyed this video

7:54let me know what you think in the comments

7:56below and I'll

7:57catch you in the next video