Web formatting for borders and dividers - New in Tableau 2022.2

0:00Now I've been saying for a long time that

0:02web editing is going to get much much

0:04better than the desktop experience

0:05One thing holding that back has been

0:07formatting and in 22.2

0:08Tableau starting to address that trend by

0:11bringing formatting capabilities to workshe

0:13ets. Let's get stuck in

0:15Okay. So now we're here in web edit

0:18I've just gone straight to Superstore work

0:19book and I'm editing this in web edit now

0:21I'm just gonna check my notes because the

0:23formatting features here

0:24They are hinting that there's going to be

0:25more in the future

0:26but the ones have specifically brought our

0:29lines text borders and

0:30Dividers and we'll sort of dig into the

0:32detail of that as we go through but in

0:34essence

0:35Here I am on a sheet if I right-click in

0:37any white space select format worksheet

0:40Over here on the left hand on the right

0:42hand side even we get the formatting pane

0:45and this is essentially what we've got

0:46So we've got fonts style lines interactive

0:48tools and borders so we can change a couple

0:51of things here

0:52We can go into each of these section and it

0:54sort of expands the capabilities. It shows

0:57us some of the

0:58Capabilities that we've sort of been used

1:00to but this is a new design for all of this

1:03We've never really had this on the right

1:04hand side

1:05Typically this has lived on the left hand

1:07side

1:07And so this might sort of hints with a

1:09redesign of the formatting capabilities

1:12because you would expect that Tableau wants

1:14Uniformity across its entire platform. So

1:18desktop

1:18I think we'll be getting these web-based

1:20features and as we move closer and closer

1:22to sort of a more parallel world where

1:25desktop and

1:25Web editor the same I think this will be

1:28the interface that will win out

1:30So if you also see these web edit changes

1:32and you think are they suck I prefer the

1:34desktop changes

1:35It's worth speaking up now and letting

1:36Tableau know that feedback because this

1:38this is the way they're heading

1:40This is just going to be the way that

1:41everything works so you can edit a bunch of

1:43things here

1:43this is really really good to see and

1:45What is interesting about this is that this

1:48pane sort of stays open?

1:49I've already got another sheet open and if

1:51I go to that

1:52You can see that the formatting pane stays

1:54open and it changes context to match what I

1:56'm looking at

1:57So as I switch between these two the

1:59settings change

1:59and this is actually quite nice because

2:01again formatting has been one of those

2:03frustrating things stopping people from

2:05going to

2:05web edit and

2:07Dashboard editing is going to specifically

2:09the thing that sort of I think will really

2:11really unlock this

2:12I think that's coming in the future so

2:14hopefully this year will see Tableau fully

2:16realize this feature set and

2:18Bring it to parity with desktop, so what I

2:20'm going to do. I'm just going to go back to

2:22This first tab here, and we're just going

2:25to play around with this

2:25I'm going to have to keep my face to the

2:27left hand side

2:27And we'll just go around and just see what

2:29the formatting options can do so the first

2:31one at the top

2:32We've got fonts which obviously changes

2:33everything for the specific worksheet

2:35So I can go ahead and change the font and

2:37again

2:38It's using a familiar sort of style that we

2:40've become used to I can change the

2:41background fill and if we

2:44Change that you can see that that changes

2:45the the background fill across everything

2:47actually which is kind of nice

2:49I'm choosing some horrible colors here. I'm

2:51just trying to sort of see the capabilities

2:53What is interesting is that the formatting

2:55at the very top is generic across the whole

2:57worksheet?

2:57And then when you go into the specifics you

3:00can see the line capabilities

3:02So if I select here grid lines you can see

3:04that they're all available if I select the

3:06very top

3:07I can actually bring a drop down that

3:09giving me a little bit more control for

3:10horizontal and vertical so at the moment

3:13vertical is off

3:14I can go to the top switch it on and

3:17Change how that looks as well so we can

3:20change things to be a little bit more

3:21interesting

3:22And I like this interface where we actually

3:24get the thickness spelled out for you in

3:27pixels

3:27That's a good sort of consistency change

3:29and what I can't sometimes see sometimes

3:33What I really struggle with formatting is

3:34trying to understand which formatting is

3:36going to change where I've actually just

3:37done a video that

3:38Explains what happens when formatting gets

3:41stuck and what would be really nice here is

3:43for Tableau to highlight the part of the

3:45chart

3:45That's actually changing when you do this

3:47because sometimes it's not enough just to

3:49be able to see things

3:49You've got to actually go choose a really

3:51bold color to then see what's going on

3:54So what I tend to do is I tend to choose

3:56like the darkest of blacks

3:58Then I can actually see what's changing

4:00because before the color that those chosen

4:02was so subtle that you wouldn't have seen

4:04it with the background

4:05Color that I've selected because I chose

4:06the dotted line and again

4:08I'm just working off you know, so basically

4:10what I think is going to work in my head

4:11But it's very very clear that you can't

4:13even see that on this particular background

4:15And it's not until I selected black that

4:17you realize okay. This is actually what I'm

4:19editing now

4:20Let's actually start to dial this back in

4:22and you can actually start to sort of make

4:23things work

4:25And this is what a lot of people do they'll

4:27sort of sit there get everything just just

4:29right and then at the very last minute

4:31They'll come in and then try and find the

4:33color set or the appropriate sort of

4:35setting that really really works for

4:36Them in that setup, so I'll go back to one

4:38pixel there, and that's really nice

4:40So that's gridlines you get the same

4:42settings for horizontal and vertical and I

4:44like that you get this sort of nice

4:46High-level view and if you go over to the

4:48multiple

4:49selection of the top you're actually going

4:51to change the horizontal and the vertical

4:53and

4:54The cool thing about that is if you just go

4:56ahead and make a single change what it does

4:58is it overrides

4:59Anything that you've set up so and be very

5:02very careful with that setting if you then

5:04go and touch this having just spent time

5:06And energy on vertical and horizontal. I

5:07think you can undo and but in essence just

5:10be careful about that now zero lines

5:12Are just zero lines is kind of self-explan

5:15atory

5:15I don't need to explain that but again

5:17these are just lines are gonna have the

5:18same formatting the interactive controls

5:20I say these are things like legends filters

5:22highlighted and parameters. They have their

5:25own font control so they're again standard

5:27izing this

5:27I like that all of those have the same

5:30Sort of control sometimes you get into the

5:32situation where a filter and parameter have

5:34different formatting

5:35I like that they're just unified under one

5:37roof

5:38So that's really nice to see and if I go

5:40back to borders

5:41And this is actually kind of nice so we've

5:43got this new interface element for borders

5:45you can have them linked

5:47So this little padlock means when you make

5:49a change to one the other will change as

5:51well

5:52So the pain and header are going to make

5:53the same changes here when you unlink them

5:55you can make

5:55Independent changes and we've also got the

5:58slider that we started to see across the

6:00tableau interface this little toggle which

6:01basically switches things on

6:03And off and as you switch them on and off

6:04you can see that things collapse and move

6:06around as well

6:07So that's again a really nice thing and it

6:09's a little confusing

6:10It's a little new, but I do like the new

6:12setup

6:13I like this new direction because it it

6:14streamlines where things are and it makes

6:17it much much more obvious

6:18What's going to happen that one thing

6:20missing is that a highlighter showing me

6:22exactly what part of the chart is going to

6:23change?

6:24Because I think that's still a little bit

6:25hard to do a bit like you get in

6:26calculation assistance where you can see

6:28the direction

6:29In which calculations are working when you

6:32do that okay, so that's the dividers and

6:34lines

6:35It's a pretty nice set of changes, but yeah

6:38these are small steps towards a bigger

6:40change

6:40I think to make formatting across the board

6:42both on web editor and desktop a little bit

6:44more consistent and easier to follow

6:46Thanks for watching and I'll catch you in

6:47the next video

6:48Yeah

6:50You

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