# In-product Tableau Exchange -New in Tableau 2022.2

> 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:** 2022-07-07
- **Format:** Video · 7 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (accelerators, dashboards, exchange, extensions)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/in-product-tableau-exchange-new-in-tableau-2022-2
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBcWPvi3yDc

I walk through the in-product Tableau Exchange in Tableau Desktop 2022.2, showing how Accelerators (which I'd rather call templates), extensions and connectors are now accessible directly inside the editing experience. Along the way I test whether you can install Exchange connectors natively and discover the capability is more complete than I first assumed.

## Key takeaways

- Accelerators are now available directly in Tableau Desktop via a 'More Accelerators' option, searchable by theme, category, language and connection type.
- Accelerators are essentially templates and starting points, so you edit the data source to swap in your own connection and update the dashboard for your environment.
- Exchange connectors can be installed in-product by clicking install and restarting Desktop, after which they appear in your installed connectors list.
- The in-product Exchange brings extensions, connectors and accelerators together in one place, so you rarely need to visit the Exchange website itself.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Accelerators in the product
- 0:57 Browsing and opening accelerators
- 2:43 Editing a template for your own data
- 3:21 Installing Exchange connectors
- 5:25 Verifying the full connector list
- 6:30 Extensions, connectors and accelerators together

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/in-product-tableau-exchange-new-in-tableau-2022-2

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