0:00Have you ever wanted a tool that tells you
0:01all the releases and updates to Tableau in
0:04one place,
0:04but more importantly shows you all the
0:06features you're going to get when you
0:08upgrade from one
0:08version of Tableau to another across all
0:11the products? In this video I'm going to
0:13show you
0:13a tool that does exactly that. Let's get
0:16stuck in. So the tool that does that is
0:17called the
0:18Tableau Release Navigator. Now I actually
0:21covered this way back in 22.1 when it came
0:24out. I did a
0:25little video touching on this and at the
0:26time it wasn't completely filled out and I
0:28actually
0:28slept on this myself. I've just been
0:30looking through the 22.2 updates and
0:32realized that this
0:33tool exists so I actually went through the
0:35release version and I have to say this is
0:37probably one of
0:38the most valuable tools that anyone who
0:39looks after Tableau and the organization
0:42could probably
0:42make sure they bookmark and have. I'll also
0:44show you something I really appreciate from
0:47this as
0:47well but here it is this is the Tableau
0:49Release Navigator. As you can see it's
0:51broken down by
0:52product and version so you can go ahead
0:54choose a particular product Tableau Prep,
0:56Tableau Desktop
0:57or Tableau Server. I'd love to see this add
1:00other parts of the Tableau ecosystem but
1:02those three
1:03broadly cover most of what you're going to
1:05want to know about. If I just go ahead and
1:07deselect all,
1:08let's just select Tableau Desktop, you'll
1:10see that it just shows me all the updates
1:11to Tableau
1:12Desktop. Now the other thing I can do is I
1:14can go ahead and tick what is enabled by
1:17add-ons and what
1:18isn't and so I can obviously go through and
1:20filter that but I'll just keep everything
1:22selected.
1:22And the great thing here is I can actually
1:24pick versions that I'm interested in
1:26understanding.
1:26Let's say that I'm on 2019, sorry let's
1:30start again, let's say I'm on 2020.4 and I
1:34want to
1:35know what's going to be new in every other
1:37Subsequent Version. What I can do is I can
1:39select
1:39all the versions after 2020.4 and I'll get
1:43a nice list of all the things that I've
1:46updated and this
1:46is really really nice to see. Now I've got
1:48a little bug here where I can't select
1:50inside of
1:50this little cursor. I think I have to click
1:53on inside of the chart and then it will
1:54actually
1:55work but it sort of scrolls the whole page
1:57as well. But you get everything in one
1:59place, this is a
1:59really nice useful set of features. Now the
2:02nice thing here is that you can obviously
2:04enhance this
2:05as well because here we're just searching
2:07by features, you can filter by product, by
2:09version,
2:09all of that stuff is going to be great but
2:11the real power comes when it comes to
2:13upgrading.
2:13Let's go to Upgrade Desktop just over here
2:16and have a look at that. You see here you
2:19get an
2:19interface that allows you to pick the
2:20version you're coming from and the version
2:22you're going
2:22to. So I can actually go ahead and do the
2:24exact same thing I just did but I can
2:26select 2020.4
2:28and I can say I'm going to 2020.1 and you
2:30'll see that it just covers all those same
2:33features here
2:33in a really really nice nice and clear way.
2:35So I get a list of everything that's going
2:37to be coming
2:38on and I can also enable and disable things
2:40that are going to be part of add-ons. Let's
2:42say I don't
2:43have the Server Management or Data
2:44Management add-on, I can actually switch
2:46these off and it
2:47will filter those features out. So you can
2:50see now this list is a lot more sort of
2:51concise. What I
2:52can also do is I can also say okay remove
2:54everything that isn't part of an add-on and
2:57just show me the
2:57add-ons capabilities, what's been added
3:00specifically for the Data Management add-on
3:02and I can see that
3:03here they're mostly Tableau catalog updates
3:05and if I go to the Server Management add-on
3:07I shouldn't
3:07see anything for Desktop because of course
3:09that's for Survey, I shouldn't see anything
3:11for Server
3:11Management in the Desktop SKU. So this is
3:13actually a really really nice way of
3:15looking at this. The
3:16other thing is when you select a particular
3:18feature you do get a little bit of a
3:19breakdown of what it's
3:20about and when you click on it if you just
3:23look at this here you do get a Learn More
3:25link and the
3:26Learn More link takes you to the
3:27documentation for that feature. So if you
3:29want to learn a little bit
3:30more about that particular feature you can
3:32just hop right into the documentation and
3:34the nice thing
3:35is that these documentation links always
3:37link to the most current version of the
3:39documentation.
3:40Now that can be a double-edged sword
3:42because if a feature changes in the future
3:44and you're looking
3:45at something historic you might go to the
3:47latest version of the documentation that is
3:49actually
3:50and sometimes incorrect for your version so
3:52that's just something to bear in mind but
3:54nonetheless I
3:55think this is an all-round amazing feature.
3:57It's something I was actually thinking of
3:59doing for
3:59TableauTim.com. I was hoping to go through
4:02grab all my videos and attach them to a
4:03specific
4:04item or release and then have a browser
4:07that sort of takes you through that
4:09experience. So this
4:09might be something I still do in the future
4:11but I think it's better as a sort of
4:13dedicated web
4:13experience that's a little bit more bespoke
4:15so we'll have a think about how we do that
4:17but
4:17nonetheless this is an amazing data set.
4:20Now the other thing I really like about
4:22this is that it's
4:22of course a workbook that's downloadable so
4:24you can go down here to the very bottom
4:26click download
4:27and you can get the Tableau workbook itself
4:29. I've actually gone ahead and done that
4:31already you can
4:31see that I've got the workbook here and the
4:33reason I got the workbook because I just
4:34wanted to play
4:35around with the workbook and see what it's
4:37like. This is also great if you want to
4:39deploy in your
4:39own organization maybe publish this up onto
4:41the server so other people in your
4:43organization maybe
4:44in the center of excellence have access to
4:46this you can just wholesale take the work
4:48book put it
4:49in your organization embed it and then
4:50every time the new one comes out just make
4:52sure you update it.
4:53The other thing you could do is you could
4:55grab the data and standardize the data
4:57through a data
4:58pipeline let's say in Tableau prep or
4:59something else and then you can also tag
5:02that data set
5:02with specifics about your organization how
5:05you use it and best practice and in order
5:08to do that
5:08all you need to do is come to this workbook
5:10right click on the data set and then go
5:12ahead and export
5:13it to a csv that gives you essentially an
5:15excel file you can grab open that up and
5:18then you get
5:18something that looks like this all the
5:20features that have been released in the
5:21different versions
5:22nicely categorized and you can start to use
5:25this as a way of filling in context maybe
5:27your
5:27organization doesn't use certain features
5:30you can add a column here saying enabled or
5:32disabled so
5:33people can come onto the server and see a
5:35data set that shows them which features are
5:37working in your
5:38organization and which features have been
5:39disabled by admins and then maybe giving
5:41you a contact
5:42link so you can reach out to someone and
5:43talk to them another thing you might do is
5:45just take this
5:46data set put it into your own system and
5:48then create some sort of api that you then
5:50might use
5:51to query specific types of features how
5:53they're working maybe you want to put this
5:55in an lms
5:56learning management system as a way of
5:58listing the features and products that have
6:00come out maybe
6:01you're a training provider and you want to
6:02make sure you're providing the most up-to-
6:04date training
6:04about Tableau this is like a change log for
6:06how your training is going to have to
6:08change in the
6:09future so this data set is just so valuable
6:11in so many different ways it's unbelievable
6:14and i'm just
6:14glad that this exists because i'll be
6:16absolutely frank as someone who covers
6:18Tableau features that
6:19are new every single month every single
6:22quarter even it's impossible to get all the
6:25features in
6:25one place until this feature because
6:27essentially what happens is the product
6:29marketing blog
6:30doesn't actually list out all the features
6:33if you go to the documentation that also
6:35doesn't always
6:36list out all the features and then on top
6:38of that there are some changes that are
6:40just so small and
6:41so sort of nuanced they don't really get
6:43heavily documented anywhere other than the
6:46source
6:46documentation themselves and of course no
6:48one is checking the entire documentation
6:50for a change log
6:51and so it's also difficult to spot those
6:53changes so in more recent years they have
6:55started calling
6:56out changes if you go to the what's new in
6:59Tableau if i just search what's new Tableau
7:03more recently what they've started doing is
7:04they've started adding a section let me
7:08show
7:08you what that looks like so this is the
7:10what's new page for desktop and altering
7:12and if i go back and
7:13i go all the way down you'll see features
7:15introduced in previous versions of Tableau
7:17if i go ahead and
7:18click on that then you'll see this drop
7:20down list and in most cases it says added
7:23in version 2018.3
7:25and so on and so forth that's what we used
7:27to in in sort of the past but over if i go
7:30over here to
7:30server if i go to yeah server on windows
7:33let's go here what's new if i go to the
7:35very bottom page
7:37there what you'll see is they've started
7:39documenting the changes so you can see here
7:41changed
7:41in 2022.1 those are the things that have
7:44changed settings defaults all of those are
7:47now being
7:47documented separately here so of course if
7:50i go to this bottom link here then for each
7:52version i
7:52now have some sort of change log and these
7:55changes are also appearing in this
7:57particular data set if
7:58i actually go over here there's a column
8:00that says status let's make this a filtered
8:03data set let's
8:03just go in here and create a filter and we
8:06'll go ahead and just look at the changed
8:08items here
8:09and you can see there's actually quite a
8:11lot of changes and these changes are
8:12sometimes nuanced
8:14sometimes they're very important sometimes
8:16they're very small but it's really good to
8:19have a change
8:19log that's being sort of maintained and you
8:21can kind of have a look at that so that's
8:23it for this
8:24video i just wanted to cover this as i'm
8:26going through the 22.2 videos i can't say
8:29that phrase
8:30clearly this whole year 22 dot whatevers
8:32have just been such a pain in the neck to
8:34say out loud
8:35i just need to come up with a different
8:37release a bit like salesforce actually have
8:40the spring
8:40summer and autumn release i'd love that it
8:42's just so much easier to say but anyway
8:44here we are here
8:45are the features in one place you can
8:47download the workbook browse the workbook
8:50download the data set
8:51make use of it as much as you possibly can
8:53i personally will be making a lot of use of
8:55this
8:56throughout the channel so stay tuned for
8:58more content on that thanks for watching
9:00and i'll
9:00catch you in the next video
9:01you
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