Tableau 2023.2

Line Patterns

Line Patterns offer new styling capabilities, allowing an author to select any trend line to be represented as a solid, dashed, or dotted lines. This new capability makes it easier to convey nuance when representing multiple trends, where styling can help to convey when certain lines represent unique context, such as thresholds or modeled data points.

Multi-row calculations in Tableau Prep

With multi-row calculations in Tableau Prep, you can compute table calculations while preparing your data. Using clicks, not code or complex calculations, it is easier than ever to calculate difference from, percentage difference from, and moving calculations. You can also now write LOOKUP calculations in the expression editor of Tableau Prep.

Personal access token admin control

Meet your organisational security requirements with additional control over personal access tokens (PATs) in Tableau Cloud.

Changes for all Tableau Cloud sites include:

• Site admins can now control who has the ability to create PATs
• Site admins can now control how long PATs are valid, ranging from 1 to 365 days

Changes for Tableau Cloud sites created after 23.2 include:

• PATs are disabled by default
• Default expiry of PATs shortened to 180 days

Editable viz alt text

You can now edit automatically generated alt text. By default, Tableau provides automated screen reader text, ensuring there's a description to be announced by screen readers for all online visualizations including client and server side rendered and embedded visualizations. Now, content authors can edit the alt text from either the Data Guide panel or by selecting Accessibility in the Worksheet drop down. Authors can add up to 2500 characters of alt text, providing deep insight into the contents of the visualisation.

Unified Tooltips

Get more context for your in-shelf pills with new tooltips. Unified Tooltips combine up to six previous tooltips into one that prioritizes information based on relevance. Get the field name, table calc details, and field comments in a single place. Any error messages or filter information now displays in the same tooltip. This unified tooltip is available for pills on all shelves.

Filter and sort in Lineage

The Lineage page now has a search option to find a field of interest. There is also the option to sort by the number of downstream sheets. Both of these capabilities are especially useful when you have a large numbers of workbooks and data sources and either want to quickly find a field of interest or identify fields that are used the most and proceed with the impact analysis for any potential changes to these fields.

Omnibox integration with mixed content search

Omnibox is a dialog that provides a set of quick search functionalities including recent search terms and content suggestions. To improve the data discovery experience, omnibox has been integrated into the connect-to dialog, the entry dialog for users to search and connect to datasets. Users now can resume search history from auto-suggested recent search terms on the connect-to dialog. Content suggestions offer a one-click connection on target datasets rather than going through the whole search cycle.

View Acceleration recommendation enhancement

Viewers can now recommend views for acceleration to workbook owners and admins. In addition to workbook query time and usage factors, viewer suggestions are now inputs of the automated view acceleration recommendation service.

Timestamp Tableau Prep outputs

You can now add a dynamic date, or datetime, stamp to Tableau Prep output names. For published data sources and file outputs, Tableau Prep can dynamically update the timestamp when the flow is ran via Tableau Prep Builder or Tableau Prep Conductor. This means you will no longer have to manually enter parameter values.

Admin Insights enhancements

Enhancements include:

• The Job Performance data source now includes Tableau Bridge extract refresh job data. This enables you to better track your Tableau Bridge extract jobs and includes data on your agents, pools, run times and error messages.
• The TS Users data source now tracks your organisation's Tableau Desktop usage.
• The brand new Subscriptions data source lets you see which users have subscriptions and allows you to create a complete picture of subscription health in your deployment when combined with other Admin Insights data sources.

Tableau Catalog: sensitivity labels

You can now label your Tableau assets: databases, tables, columns, data sources, virtual connections, and flows as sensitive. With asset labels you can choose a generic value or create your own depending on how your organization classifies sensitive data. Labeling sensitive data will help guide decision making for users that are shaping, publishing, viewing, or governing data in Tableau. This feature was built API first, so no matter where you store sensitive information today, you can import them into Tableau.

Image Role enhancements

Image Role is easier and more flexible with the recent enhancements. Image Role has expanded image file type support, now including those in SVG, WEBP, JFIF, ICO, BMP, and GIF format in addition to images in PNG, JPG, and JPEG format. Image Role can also now handle up to 100 images per column and increased image fetching to allow images up to 200kb. You can also access the Remove requirement with no need for Image Links to contain extensions.

Usage Metrics enhancements

Total shares is now displayed as a Metric in the Usage tab along with total favorites and total views. With these insights, analysts can better understand engagement so they can build content that resonates with their audience. Viewers can leverage Usage Metrics to validate that the content is widely used and trustworthy.

Card navigation improvements

We've made navigating the content grid view more accessible by adding full keyboard navigation support, including selection and batch actions.The focus indicator has also been improved, so you can better understand which item you're interacting with or navigating to. Content metadata is also easier to access via a popover widget.

Accelerator Data Mapping enhancements

With Data Mapping, you can jump-start your analytics by reducing the time and effort required to set up an Accelerator’s ready-to-use dashboards. 

This release brings additional capabilities to Data Mapping, including:

• State saving: selected values are retained across multiple sessions
• Sample values: a set of domain values are displayed in the tool tip for the fields
• Switching data sources midway to another data source
• Support for selecting existing connected data sources
• Support for all single-data-source Accelerators