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Coming soon in Tableau 2021.3

Tableau 2021.3 is quietly already here on Tableau Online, so I'm diving straight into the features rather than waiting for the fanfare.

Part ofWhat's New in Tableau 2021.3
  • Because Tableau Online upgrades roughly three to four weeks ahead of the general release, many 2021.3 features are already live there even before Tableau Desktop's installer ships.
  • Tableau Prep's new Generate Rows step has three modes (serial sequence, fill dates between min/max, and fill the gap for a single record), making date scaffolding for things like open-ticket snapshots far easier than the old union-and-running-total approach.
  • Personal Spaces give every user a private area to create and move workbooks; admins can see space usage but not look inside the workbooks themselves.
  • Web authoring keeps closing the gap with desktop via a new workbook formatting pane and advanced filtering, though formatting axis number units in the browser still isn't possible.
  • You can pull up release-specific documentation by editing the help.tableau.com URL to swap 'current' for 'v2021.3'.

Tableau 2021.3 Is nearly here so today, I’m going through the coming soon page to find out what’s new. 0:00 Intro. 2:42 Prep - linked tasks for prep conductor.3:51 Prep - generate rows.5:16 Subscription data quality warnings.5:42 Inherited descriptions in web authoring.6:25 Slack Notifications 7:40 Personal Spaces8:14 Explain data updates for admins 9:29 Desktop - Custom sample workbooks10:44 Rename published data sources11:35 Spatial updates 13:15 WKT support14:05 DBT ISO date support 14:25 Web authoring improvements15:53 SOQL relationship queries Salesforce16:48 Google big query 18:18 Data freshness policy19:57 Tableau mobile updates 23:00 Accessibility improvements24:26 How to find the documentation for the release28:10 Prep new rows first look34:33 Personal spaces first look37:33 Web authoring improvements first look46:55 Outro and new videos next week