![]() Note: To download a specific version of Tableau Prep Builder, open the Product Downloads and Release Notes (Link opens in a new window) page and select Tableau Prep Builder from the list on the left side of the page. The maintenance releases for Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep Builder didn't follow the same sequence. In prior versions, the version numbers for Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep Builder had different formats. Starting in Tableau Prep Builder version 2022.3, the release version numbering scheme is now aligned with Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. Similarly, if you publish flows to Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud to schedule them to run using Tableau Prep Conductor and your flows include new features or connectors that aren't supported in your version of Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud, you can run into compatibility errors that might prevent you from scheduling and running your flows. For more information about authoring flows on the web, see Tableau Prep on the Web in the Tableau Server (Link opens in a new window) and Tableau Cloud (Link opens in a new window) help. Flows created on the web will always be compatible with the server version you are using. Note: Starting in version 2020.4, you can create and edit flows directly on Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud. I am definitely looking forward to seeing how Tableau Prep evolves moving forward.If new features or connectors are introduced in a new version of Tableau Prep Builder and you are working in an older version, compatibility may be an issue if you try to open a flow. ![]() Up until now, it hasn’t been, but perhaps this will be changing. It could also be a signal that perhaps Tableau is planning to really invest in this space to make Tableau Prep a viable solution for large-scale organizations. The most important thing to realize about this release is the possibilities it opens up in terms of the data transformation space. ![]() With Tableau Conductor you are able to schedule your workflow runs, so this could enable some serious analytics power for your team. It could be time to move some more data transformation work from external partners into your own team bringing more of the end-to-end process under your control. Most of you reading this are saying to yourselves, duh, but now that you are able to do this in Tableau Prep, it might be worth checking out some of its features to see if you can make more use of the tool. Now with the ability to write to a database, this could change.Īs a matter of best practice, data governance, and organizational efficiency, the data sets that you use in your reporting should be housed in a database. The big take away is that publishing to a database will allow your Tableau Prep workflows to be considered as more than an ad hoc tool in your data process.īefore this release, Tableau Prep had mostly been limited to one-off use cases for analysts in dire need of some data manipulation, but it had not found its footing as part of most organizations’ end-to-end solutions. Both of these data types were meant to be saved locally. ![]() Previously, the only way you could export that data was to make it a CSV or a HYPER file. Now that you are able to publish the result of your workflow to a database, you can then access that manipulated data from Tableau Desktop that way. Previously, those changes to the data were not allowed to be saved and stored in a way that would make those workflows a part of the permanent data strategy. Basic joins, row level calculations, and naming corrections to fields and/or values are all things that Tableau Prep is great at handling, and those are things that come up often in an analyst’s job. It is well known that Tableau Prep offers a lot of great capabilities for data manipulation that is especially useful for analysts who are working with Tableau on a daily basis.
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