# Action & filter menu changes in Desktop & Web Authoring: New in Tableau 2021.3

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2021-09-13
- **Format:** Video · 5 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, dashboards, filters)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/action-filter-menu-changes-in-desktop-web-authoring-new-in-tableau-2021-3
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyY4JekF_EU

I walk through two interface changes in Tableau 2021.3 that bring desktop and web authoring closer together. The action dialog in desktop has been updated to match the web version, and the filter dialog in web authoring now carries the full feature set found in desktop.

## Key takeaways

- In Tableau 2021.3 the dashboard action interface in desktop now matches the web authoring version on both Mac and Windows
- Bringing the web action dialog into desktop forces feature parity, since you can't strip features when moving a feature across
- The filter dialog in web authoring now includes the full set of options found in desktop, including wildcard, conditions, top and bottom, and the summary panel
- The desktop filter dialog still uses the older design, so a future release will likely switch it to the web version too
- These changes signal growing momentum towards full feature parity, moving closer to authoring entirely in the browser

## Chapters

- 0:11 Updated action interface in desktop
- 2:14 Filter dialog changes in web authoring
- 3:52 Why web authoring matters for Tableau

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/action-filter-menu-changes-in-desktop-web-authoring-new-in-tableau-2021-3

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