Opening Saved Files

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, I've talked about how to save a file to Tableau, but
• 00:07 I haven't really shown you how to open one, once you've saved it.
• 00:10 We talked about it briefly, when we looked at the Tableau website,
• 00:12 several videos back, but we didn't actually walk through it.
• 00:15 So I thought this would be a good time to do it here, at the end of the course,
• 00:18 after we've created a whole bunch of things.
• 00:21 And we want to save these, and then retrieve them later.
• 00:22 So how do we do that?
• 00:23 So, as you remember to save a file, we go up to File and Save to Tableau Public.
• 00:29 You see a little thing pops up.
• 00:31 It's saving, we've already logged in before.
• 00:33 It's saving all of these views, that we've got a bunch of extra views,
• 00:37 since the last time we saved, and it's doing all the things.
• 00:42 Okay, so now that's done, and when it finishes,
• 00:45 it automatically opens up your Tableau Public account.
• 00:48 All right, so if you haven't logged in recently, it'll ask you to login.
• 00:51 But we've logged in recently.
• 00:52 So you can see here is my profile.
• 00:55 And we can see here's our story.
• 00:57 So Let's say we've closed Tableau.
• 01:00 So I'm going to go ahead, and close this.
• 01:02 There's a couple of ways to now open it back up, and get this data.
• 01:05 So, if we come back over here.
• 01:06 And let's click on my profile.
• 01:09 You can see here are these visualizations that we've created,
• 01:12 is the most recent one we just saved.
• 01:16 This is the original one.
• 01:17 And let's go back, and open Tableau.
• 01:18 So I'm going to my Windows start menu, you can't see it, it's on my other monitor.
• 01:22 But I just typed in Tableau, and the little Tableau icon popped up.
• 01:25 You click on it, like you do to open any software.
• 01:30 And when you do, it shows you right here which ones you can open, right?
• 01:34 So, if we want to open that last one, we could just click on here.
• 01:39 And it's now opening back up.
• 01:40 You can see there's our story.
• 01:43 And this is great.
• 01:45 Well, what if you're on a different computer, or somebody else's computer, and
• 01:50 you're not sort of connected to Tableau website, with that version of Tableau.
• 01:56 What you can do is come back over here, and
• 01:58 view the visualization that you want to open.
• 02:02 And here it is.
• 02:03 You can see here's our story.
• 02:05 Here's all the different visualizations at the top there.
• 02:07 What we can do is click on one of these guys.
• 02:12 And you'll notice there's a little green bar. I closed that out.
• 02:15 And here you see this download link at the top.
• 02:17 We talked about these download links down here,
• 02:20 where we can save to PDFs, or images, or PowerPoint.
• 02:24 We don't want that one.
• 02:25 This time, we want this one up here, the download one, we click on that.
• 02:29 We can either save this file, or we can open it with Tableau Public,
• 02:33 which is what we want, click ok.
• 02:35 Boom, it's going to open up Tableau for us.
• 02:37 We don't even have to go to their Windows start menu.
• 02:39 It will just open it up.
• 02:41 And here we are, and we're ready to go.
• 02:43 So, that's how to open a saved file from Tableau Public, two different ways.
• 02:47 Like I said, we could also click on here, and click download, and save this file.
• 02:52 Now, we can save this anywhere we want.
• 02:53 I'm on my desktop, dog breeds with license type dashboard.
• 02:57 It's a TWBX file go ahead, and save that.
• 03:00 And now, if we look at our desktop, we see here's this new file right there,
• 03:03 that's been created for us.
• 03:05 We can double-click it, and it will open another version of Tableau for us.
• 03:08 You can see there it's opening right up.
• 03:10 It takes a second, and boom, now, it works.
• 03:12 Maximize this, and we're ready to go.
• 03:14 So, again, one of the problems with Tableau Public is you can't save these to
• 03:18 your local computer.
• 03:19 But, again, we've just found another workaround by first saving, and
• 03:22 onto the Tableau website.
• 03:23 And then from there, saving it on your computer, and
• 03:26 then you've got it saved on your computer.
• 03:27 So, another reason why you may not want to spend money on the expensive Tableau
• 03:32 version.
• 03:33 When you can use this free one, and
• 03:34 still get around some of the limitations that it has.
• 03:37 So that's all for this video.

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