# New features coming in Tableau 2022.2 - All products

> 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:** 2022-06-18
- **Format:** Video · 23 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Industry trends, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (ask data, cloud, embedding, metrics, mobile, prep, rest api, view acceleration, workbook optimizer)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/new-features-coming-in-tableau-2022-2-tableau-cloud-tableau-desktop-tableau-server-and-prep
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAaZ9FuFF8Q

I walk through Tableau's coming soon page to preview what's arriving in the 2022.2 release across all products. I cover the new features spanning data stories, metrics, embedding, prep, mobile and a long list of REST API additions, giving my honest read on which ones actually matter.

## Key takeaways

- The in-product Exchange brings templates, accelerators and connectors directly into Tableau so you no longer need to download files from a webpage
- An 'add filters' dashboard object lets consumers add their own filters, reducing the endless author requests for slightly different filter sets
- Wildcard union enhancements let you look inside folders and filter by name, creation time, last modified time, last access time and size
- The Metrics REST API endpoint lets you fetch metric data into your own applications and visualise it with tools like D3 or Angular
- 2022.2 is light on desktop-only features; most additions are quality-of-life changes and a large batch of REST API endpoints aimed at managing the platform at scale

## Chapters

- 0:08 Walking through the coming soon page
- 0:27 Data stories, autosave and in-product exchange
- 0:57 Metrics, search and wildcard union enhancements
- 2:15 Prep column ordering and embedded web authoring
- 3:49 New connectors, languages and add filters object
- 5:17 Ask data, lenses and web formatting
- 7:03 Workbook optimizer, mobile and security
- 11:04 View acceleration and printing improvements
- 14:17 REST API additions and the 70+ APIs claim
- 21:02 Verdict on the desktop features

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/new-features-coming-in-tableau-2022-2-tableau-cloud-tableau-desktop-tableau-server-and-prep

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