# Animated transition enhancements

> 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:** 2020-08-12
- **Format:** Video · 6 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (animations, filters, performance, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/animated-transition-enhancements-in-tableau-2020-3
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/P-j_ZGkrQoE

I walk through the animation enhancements in Tableau 2020.3, focusing on the performance improvements that make animations behave better on Server and Online. I build a dense 10,000-mark visualisation in Web Edit to test how responsive filtering and selecting feels, and I look at the improved step line animation behaviour.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 2020.3 improves animation performance specifically for Server and Online, not just Desktop
- You can enable animations via Format > Animations and tune duration and style, though Desktop still generally outperforms Web Edit
- Pushing a viz to around 10,000 marks (using product name, customer name, colour, size and opacity) is a good stress test for animation responsiveness
- Filtering and selecting feels more responsive once Tableau begins caching some of the animated responses
- Step line animations now adhere to transitions correctly, fixing the buggy behaviour from earlier versions

## Chapters

- 0:00 What's new in 2020.3 animations
- 0:34 Building a dense 10,000-mark viz
- 2:08 Enabling animations in Web Edit
- 3:16 Testing filter performance
- 5:01 Improved step line animation

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/animated-transition-enhancements-in-tableau-2020-3

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