Thank the lord we are getting something to help suspended extracts. I am constantly amazed at how poor the admin is for extracts. Its such a challenge looking for stale content that is using up resources. Backgrounder extract tasks that are running daily, but no-one is looking at them. Sure you can roll your own if you have access to the postgresDB but the UI makes it almost impossible to see. The fact that on the Task UI where it lists all the extract tasks, and where i KNOW i have suspended jobs, there is no visual indication in the UI!
Regarding updates, I prefer Tableau release new features as they become available. The reason is that my gov agency has it's own update schedule. Everything has to be cleared for security (so cloud is a non starter). The lag time is easily 6 months or more. If they release features continuously, at least we know what we will get at the next update.
Great question! Id have to investigate that I don't think it does just yet. I feel like they would have called it out so we have to wait till the launch to find out Will keep you posted if i find anything.
Dynamic parameter in table extensions is actually huge and surprised that's the last feature they listed for the update. Imagine feeding user input through parameter action and table extensions to Google API! You can start running Google searches on your dashboard! Anyhow, I am still waiting for the meatballs to meet the noodles. And where's the new mark types?
Totally agree with you about half-baked features. In the beginning they are so unusable, so it makes me think that they fired all beta-testes and use their customers for that.
If this is the last update for this year, what happened to their statement that the AI enhancement would be available this year (at least for beta testing)? Honestly, since OpenAI released their enterprise version GPT-4, Tableau is in trouble.
there's one more release 23.4 that should arrive November or December but yeah I still dont think Tableau GPT will drop before 2024 as they said in the last keynote.
