Ditch the whiteboard! Use Microsoft Fabric task flows!
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Tired of drawing out your flow on a whiteboard and it getting erased? Now you can use task flows within Microsoft Fabric to lay things out. Patrick gets you started!
Announcing the public preview of task flows in Microsoft Fabric
blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-...
Task flows in Microsoft Fabric (preview)
learn.microsoft.com/fabric/ge...
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I like how it is simple once you know what Task flows are trying to do.
can you help explain what it is they are trying to do?
@@lopypop it’s a semantic model of your entire workspace architecture but with the ability to link artifacts to each diagram element, allowing you to visually organise your workspace for easier navigation.
@@lopypop in simple terms, it's a documentation tool that everyone can view. If you have a new team member join or someone jumps into a project in progress, they can quickly visualize the processes already in place.
@@Pantone268Plus Thanks! How does it differ from Lineage view? From what I understand, lineage view is automatic and accurate, but this view you can add whatever you want with hyperlinks to individual artifacts?
Really awesome to have this tool, it'll make life a lot easier when trying to figure out what's in the project. Thanks for your nicely summarized and yet complete demo.
It would be really cool to have a cross-workspace task flows board to map bigger architectures, like a medallion architecture where each stage is a different workspace. Cool stuff!
Awesome! I haven't tried this yet, thank you!!
This video has nice fresh look to it. Always helpful content.
Nice feature! I hope we can create multiple task flows for a given workspace. Maybe per folder, as the items are not filtered cross folders
Patrick I love your videos and have been using Power BI professionally for years, but after watching this and your demo at Build, I still have no idea what this is for. My best guess is... Lineage View but with more artifacts?
I think my problem is that I used to be VERY familiar with Power BI as a BI platform, but ever since the Fabric brand has enveloped it, there are too many other parts of it that feel irrelevant to my actual use cases for Power BI.
Note: even the first quote in the blog post for Task Flows starts with “The problem that Fabric faces is that workspaces can become cluttered and unmanageable and confusing....” (Simon Nuss, VP Data & Analytics, Hitachi Solutions).
Microsoft wants to be everything for everybody. The problem is that experienced users like you are finding it confusing and difficult to incorporate new apps or new features, and sometimes the apps in their current workflow no longer work as needed. You are not alone.
@@dollystraycat1282 it's really too bad because I'm sure these tools are all great in their own right, but now it feels like they took the Best In Class (magic quadrant) BI platform and bloated the UI with the maximum number of ways to cross sell other Microsoft products.
I hear they're even getting rid of the Power BI premium server SKUs and relabling them as Fabric with new SKU numbers. Do you know how much more complicated this will make procurement and budget approval? Instead of saying "I need another Power BI P3 capacity for hosting power BI apps" now we need to muddle through all the other Fabric things. When I talk with our Microsoft rep to try understand the new features and capabilites, their only focus is selling us more Fabric capacity. I indicated that we don't understand the value prop and asked for more information and their only response was "Go check out Microsoft Learn" without any specific guidance or follow up on training materials.
They expect us to buy higher SKUs without even trying to explain why we should. (note: we are a sizable account and they still dgaf. My impression is that they are under a lot of pressure to show continued demand for Azure cloud services)
@@dollystraycat1282 it's really too bad because I'm sure these tools are all great in their own right, but now it feels like they took the Best In Class (magic quadrant) BI platform and bloated the UI with the maximum number of ways to cross sell other Microsoft products.
I hear they're even getting rid of the Power BI premium server SKUs and relabling them as Fabric with new SKU numbers. Do you know how much more complicated this will make procurement and budget approval? Instead of saying "I need a Power BI P# capacity for hosting power BI apps" now we need to muddle through all the other Fabric things. When I talk with our Microsoft rep to try understand the new features and capabilites, their only focus was selling us more Fabric capacity. I indicated that we don't understand the value prop and asked for more information and their only response was "Go check out Microsoft Learn" without any specific guidance or follow up on training materials.
They expect us to buy higher SKUs without even trying to explain why we should. (note: we are a sizable account and they still dgaf - my impression was that they didn't understand either and were just trying to hit their sales targets)
It's really too bad because I'm sure these tools are all great in their own right, but now it feels like they took the Best In Class (magic quadrant) BI platform and bloated the UI with the maximum number of ways to cross sell other Microsoft products.
I hear they're even getting rid of the Power BI premium server SKUs and relabling them as Fabric with new SKU numbers. Do you know how much more complicated this will make procurement and budget approval? Instead of saying "I need a Power BI P# capacity for hosting power BI apps", now we need to muddle through all the other Fabric things. When I talked with our Microsoft rep to try understand the new features and capabilites, their only focus was selling us more Fabric capacity. I indicated that we don't understand the value prop and asked for more information and their only response was "Go check out Microsoft Learn" without any specific guidance or follow up on training materials.
They expect us to buy higher SKUs without even trying to explain why we should. (note: we are a sizable account and my impression was that they didn't understand either and were just trying to hit their sales targets)
I agree. Maybe because I also couldn't discover fully as my organization didn't enable Fabric for us yet, but it really makes me feel like it is becoming too complicated as they are too much pushing everything in one place.
Great feature. Thanks
Looks very useful, are there plans to open this up to non-fabric back-end architecture?
PBI was quite clear and straightforward to use before Fabric or this kind of task flow stuff... I could manage well without them.
Thanks Patrick!!
As always consize, nice and cool 👏 Like it! Ps. Q: what software do you use to make your videos? :)
The content you share is amazing!
But could you perhaps start at the laptop form the beginning so that you don't need to head over there all the time? :D
Does this support cross workspace i.e. I like a workspaces for my extract data flows, then a workspace for transformation, and then workspaces per dept with golden dataset and thin reports. It looks like Fabric are encouraging us to adopt the one workspace for everything architecture?
I had the same reaction. Everything we already built is split into different workspaces... this new feature is just not gonna work. And if we want to use it then it's forcing us to reshape our standards and culture :( Looks interesting though... just really hard to actually use it.
so PBI workspace just became also a tool for architects...to draw... tasks? but why :O
I think it is quite helpful to have it within Fabric, considering how many features there are in Fabric. Things can get really messy if not properly documented. So, I think this task flow will save a lot of headaches when trying to figure out what's in the project.
I hope there is a desktop version for this
Q: is this just for documentation of how we're processing data in a particular workspace? I feel like that would require that each workspace it's dedicated to a particular process. We use 1 workplace for many purposes.
Let's say i built a archtacture which have few data flow (legacy) and data set.
Will this task flow can refresh the data set once all the data flows finished the refresh?
Members only videos??? Love it!
Could u please help me with the bulk search text option with multiple columns and values
Dose it connect with teams?
How is this a replacement of whiteboard?
Hi can you please help me I only see two items in each task, "Report" and "Dashboard" nothing else.
Appreciate the video, but who even asked for this feature in PBI? 😂
Maybe MSFT should isolate this to Fabric, instead of including it in the PBI UI.
I love you Patrick, keep on posting content and doing what you do 👊
But....
Maybe I shouldnt look a gifted horse in the mouth. But for years now I don't understand the relevance or priority of many MS products or features. I really hope this was made by an intern and not by the normal development staff. I would much rather see things like more visuals (organisation chart, calendar, histogram, search bar, image viewer), a decent date picker that also allows 1 reference date instead of a range, 'Top N with others' for column and pie charts, a decent P&L visual for financials, a decent text box (the current one is really bad) and more. Long time ago I made many posts on the Power BI Ideas forum about these, but that way of working does not work. Many people post the same ideas and there is no moderation / combining of duplicate ideas. So these ideas dont get many votes. I stopped participating in this community.
What's the point
The Data Process Language need some further development. Bronze, Silver, Gold is like calling it A, B, C.
Compare it to 'Storage Data Layer' (SDL), 'OperationalHistorical DataLayer' (OHL), 'Business DataLayer' (BDL), 'Performance DataLayer' (PDL) and then 'Access DataLayer' (ADL) = Value-Creation-Steps is better for Tech Managers. Medallions is better for Non tech Managers.
Luckily, we just have to wait for AI to figure this out ... "Do you want me to fix this?", "Yes, please ;)"
Is it going to replace Azure Data Factory Pipelines in the future?
It's just a diagram, basically, so I'd say not.
We've been using Whiteboard...
For once I dom’t feel this like exciting, and when you have many users working in workspaces calling you “why this has taken all this space…”.
They could have made it optional
Seems pointless to me. It will be deprecated soon.
And it can only have artifacts from single workspace, no Databricks notebooks or ADF pipelines etc.
Another half-baked feature -> same as Scorecards, Dashboards, Alarms, Dataflows gen 1, Data Marts etc. It is like those could be good, but they stopped working on them…