# Ask Data and Slack integration: New in Tableau 2021.4

> 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:** 2022-01-07
- **Format:** Video · 4 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Analytics
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai, cloud)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/ask-data-and-slack-integration-new-in-tableau-2021-4
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBQ--F_IVNY

I demonstrate the new Ask Data and Slack integration in Tableau 2021.4, using two profiles to show both sending and receiving a notification. I walk through asking a question via an Ask Data lens, then sharing the result to a colleague via Slack and email.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 2021.4 lets you send Ask Data notifications to Slack as well as email, provided notifications are enabled
- Ask Data now requires a lens before you can ask a question, so you need one set up first
- You type a natural-language question (like 'busiest day in 2018') and Tableau interprets it into a chart you can refine
- Sharing a result sends it to multiple destinations at once, and recipients can continue the analysis from where you left off
- Notification links contain a hidden ID that is removed after viewing, likely to stop them being endlessly reshared

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/ask-data-and-slack-integration-new-in-tableau-2021-4

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