# Filter dialogs now in web edit

> 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 · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, filters, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/filter-dialogs-in-web-edit
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/v5eaxM_iW-U

I walk through a new web edit enhancement in Tableau 2020.3, where the filter dialogue familiar from Tableau Desktop has been brought into web edit. I compare how filtering worked in a previous server version against the new dialogue and explain why building filters on the server can sometimes be faster.

## Key takeaways

- In Tableau 2020.3, dragging a dimension onto the filter shelf in web edit now opens a proper filter dialogue rather than just editing in the side pane
- The new dialogue currently supports basic custom value list selection, but wildcard, conditional and top filters haven't been brought across yet
- Filtering runs on Tableau Server or Tableau Online, leveraging server query power rather than your desktop machine
- On large datasets, web edit filtering can be faster because the server is more capable and often sits closer to the database

## Chapters

- 0:00 Web edit filter parity in 2020.3
- 0:26 Filtering in the previous server version
- 1:00 The new filter dialogue in 2020.3
- 2:04 Why server-side filtering can be faster

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/filter-dialogs-in-web-edit

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