# Better search experience in Tableau Server & Tableau Online: New in Tableau 2022.1

> 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:** 2022-03-31
- **Format:** Video · 5 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Productivity
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/better-search-experience-in-tableau-server-tableau-online-new-in-tableau-2022-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puba3kTjQDU

I walk through the enhanced search experience in Tableau Server and Tableau Online introduced in Tableau 2022.1. I show the new filter pane, content type grouping, fuzzy and token matching, sorting options, and progressive loading, and explain how search differs from explore.

## Key takeaways

- The new search adds a filter pane so you can narrow results by content type, owner and last modified date
- Results are grouped by content type - views, workbooks, data sources, flows, tables, databases and files
- Search uses token matching plus fuzzy matching, so misspelled names or terms still return the closest match
- Filtering to a single content type unlocks sorting by relevance or popularity on the right-hand side
- Search is for finding specific content while explore is for browsing, and progressive (lazy) loading speeds up returning initial results

## Chapters

- 0:13 New search filter pane and content types
- 1:21 Search versus explore
- 1:43 Token and fuzzy matching
- 2:38 Author search and sorting options
- 3:23 Progressive loading and wrap-up

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/better-search-experience-in-tableau-server-tableau-online-new-in-tableau-2022-1

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