# New Features coming to 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:** 2022-03-16
- **Format:** Video · 2552 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Python; Tableau (ask data, catalog, cloud, connectors, data modelling, embedding, filters, prep, server, workbook optimizer)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/new-features-coming-to-tableau-2022-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPqYzoR_7-8

I'm back after a couple of months away to walk through the new features coming in Tableau 2022.1, using the official Coming Soon page. I give a high-level overview and then dig into each feature, from the Workbook Optimizer and improved search to admin-focused server changes, Prep enhancements and the embedding API.

## Key takeaways

- The Workbook Optimizer runs 12 best-practice checks at launch with red/amber/green indicators, flagging performance and accessibility issues and telling you what you've done well, not just what's wrong.
- Customize View Data finally lets you choose which columns show, reorder them and export tables in specific ways, all compatible with Tableau's accessibility guidelines.
- Server admins gain real control over background resource limits per site, plus an independent gateway you can install outside Tableau Server and hyperspooling monitoring to spot when Hyper writes to disk.
- View Acceleration claims workbooks up to 100x faster at the push of a button, likely by pre-loading or caching views rather than genuinely speeding the underlying query.
- The .1 release is foundational groundwork rather than headline features, so expect the bigger wow features in the .2 or .3 releases later in the year.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Why I've been away
- 0:45 High-level overview of the release
- 5:15 Workbook Optimizer
- 8:13 New search experience
- 9:19 Ask Data Phrase Builder
- 11:02 Enterprise deployment guidelines
- 12:14 Background resource limits
- 14:23 Customize View Data
- 15:31 Data Freshness Parquet connector
- 17:14 New accelerators on Tableau Exchange
- 20:16 New connectors on Tableau Exchange
- 22:24 Tableau Server independent gateway

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/new-features-coming-to-tableau-2022-1

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