Data Preparation: new features
From Talend Studio 8, you must use the Installing features using the Feature Manager to install Talend Data Preparation features and components.
| Feature | Description |
Available in |
|---|---|---|
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Magic Fill improvements |
As part of the substring type transformations, the Magic
Fill function can now handle acronyms. You can convert names, units
or expressions, regardless of the case, to their abbreviated forms, and decide on
how to separate characters and which case to use in the output column. 
|
All subscription-based Talend products with Talend Studio |
|
Improved standardization possibilities |
The Standardize value function can now be applied to
columns based on compound semantic types, and not only dictionary types. In the
same way, when editing a value in the grid, suggestions will now be also
available in columns based on compound semantic types, in addition to
dictionaries.
|
All Talend Platform and Data Fabric products |
| Normalize values extracted by semantic types | When using the Extract values by semantic type
function, it is now possible to replace the extracted value with the value in the
dictionary by using the Normalize value option.
|
All Talend Platform and Data Fabric products |
| New maps in the profiling area | When working on columns with the following semantic types, you will now be
able to display the repartition of values in the form of a map:
|
All Talend Platform and Data Fabric products |
| Improved filtering in preparations | You can now benefit from improved filtering capabilities when working on
a preparation. In addition to the global search, you can use the Add
filter button to specifically select a column, an operator, and the
keywords to look for. This makes the creation and combining of filters more
intuitive and powerful.
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All subscription-based Talend products with Talend Studio |
| Force the semantic type of a column | When changing the semantic type of a column in a preparation, you are no
longer limited to the types that have the highest matching percentage. If the
semantic type that you want to apply is not listed in the suggestions, you can
directly browse and search for it.
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All Talend Platform and Data Fabric products |
| Creating a preparation | Improved the interface to make it more intuitive. |
All subscription-based Talend products with Talend Studio |
| Sharing a connection, dataset and preparation | Improved the interface to make it more intuitive. |
All subscription-based Talend products with Talend Studio |
| New Swagger URL | You now reach the Swagger API documentation by using the following
format: https://<host>:<port>/swagger-ui/, where host and port correspond to the URL of your Talend Data Preparation instance. |
All subscription-based Talend products with Talend Studio |
