Unified notification experience: New in tableau 2021.1

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

0:01going to be taking you through the new

0:03unified notification experience in Tableau

0:052221.1. It's a bit of a tongue twister to

0:08say,

0:09but here we are. Essentially what they've

0:10done is they've improved the notification

0:12center,

0:12so they've essentially given you two things

0:14. They've improved the interface, they've

0:16brought

0:17a lot of notifications that should be there

0:19into one place, and then they've also given

0:21some control so you can essentially choose

0:23where you get notifications. Let me show

0:25you.

0:26I head over to my Tableau Online instance,

0:28you'll see that I'm already logged in, and

0:30if you go up

0:30to the bell icon and click on it, you'll

0:32see that this now has a new interface. Now

0:34you can see I've

0:35already sent myself a test notification

0:37just a few minutes ago, but it has a very

0:39nice feel to it.

0:41Now one of the nice things is that your

0:43notifications stay here, so even if you've

0:46seen a notification you can mark it as red,

0:48they don't disappear once you've marked

0:50them as red. So

0:51if you sort of rely on notifications to be

0:53made aware of where things are and someone

0:56shared

0:56something with you, until you explicitly

0:58remove the notification, that notification

1:01is always

1:01going to stay there, which is kind of a

1:03really nice sort of thing to have. Now if

1:06you have any

1:07unread notifications, you also have this

1:09separator. Because I've just read that

1:10previous notification,

1:11you'll see there's nothing here, but if I

1:13go in here, mark it as unread, and then go

1:15to this tab,

1:16you'll see that it appears in both tabs. So

1:18this is a really nice quality of life

1:20improvement,

1:21essentially you can filter the

1:22notifications you've already seen and not

1:25seen. And again,

1:25here once you mark it as red, it disappears

1:27from this list. So you can sort of use it

1:29as a way of

1:30triaging this notification tool. If you're

1:32a server admin or maybe you have a lot of

1:34extracts, this is

1:35a nice way of getting to those extracts

1:37really quickly if they're causing issues.

1:38Now the other

1:40thing you can do is actually this little

1:42gear here on the top right hand side will

1:45take you straight

1:46to a settings page that will show you how

1:47to control your notifications. So let's

1:49just take

1:50a look at that. Let's hit that control gear

1:52here. And it takes us directly to our

1:54settings page for

1:56our account, you can actually get to this

1:57another way. I'll show you that in a second

1:59. But you'll

1:59see here that there's this notifications

2:02area, this is nice and new. So you can

2:04essentially

2:05change where you receive notifications. Let

2:07's say you don't want to be notified on

2:10Tableau for

2:10certain things. Let's say I don't want to

2:12be notified on comments, flow runs, all I

2:14want to

2:15be notified on Tableau is the extract job.

2:17So I can essentially choose those settings

2:20and deselect the

2:21comments there and mentions and then hit

2:23save changes. And so the only thing I'll

2:24actually see

2:25in this bell on Tableau itself will be

2:27those extracts runs failing or succeeding

2:30or whatever.

2:31Now the more practical thing is actually to

2:33do it this way around. So to keep your

2:35mentions and

2:36everything on Tableau, but actually just

2:39choose to be specifically, choose to be

2:41specifically

2:42notified about flow runs and extract jobs

2:44as well. And webhooks also come through by

2:47email,

2:48essentially, this is a feature that's

2:49required because webhooks typically need to

2:52notify you

2:52some way. So there's no ability yet for

2:55them to notify you in Tableau. But I'm sure

2:57that's probably

2:58maybe coming in the future. And then once

3:00you've made your changes, you hit your save

3:01changes,

3:02and that's pretty much it. That's

3:03everything changed. And you can see that

3:05this has been

3:05successful. You've got this little toast

3:07thing that came up there disappeared before

3:09I could get

3:10to it. But nonetheless, that's pretty much

3:12it. It's a nice small quality of life

3:13improvement,

3:14but hopefully makes it easier to get to the

3:16notifications that matter really, really

3:18quickly.

3:18If you've enjoyed this video, be sure to

3:20check out some of the other videos in the

3:222021.1 playlist

3:24I've got here on YouTube. And also on my

3:25website, actually, if I just go to Tableau

3:2710.com, I'll show

3:28you how that looks. I think it's actually a

3:31better place to sort of browse all these

3:33new features. So

3:33if you go to the website and just hit this

3:35big banner on the homepage, you can see

3:37that all the

3:38previous videos are here on the right hand

3:39side. So you can just sort of click through

3:41these and

3:42it's just much easier and nicer to sort of

3:44see them all in one place. It's essentially

3:46the same

3:47content as in YouTube. It's no different.

3:48It's exactly the same videos just in there.

3:50I think a better place to watch them. So

3:52check that out as well if you haven't had a

3:53chance.

3:54But otherwise, thanks for tuning in and I

4:01'll catch you in the next video.