New Project Tree in Tableau Server & Tableau Cloud | Tableau 2025.1 Feature
There's a new little icon in Tableau 2025.1 that makes browsing projects much, much faster.
- The project tree icon sits at the top left of the Viz Portal in Tableau Cloud and Server in 2025.1.
- Clicking it opens a side menu that lets you browse nested project folders across your entire instance without navigating into them.
- It only displays projects you have access to.
- You can search by typing part of a folder name, and it surfaces the parent and nested subfolders.
- This was a community-requested idea that Tableau finally implemented in 2025.1.
Tableau 2025.1 adds a project tree icon to the Viz Portal that lets you browse and search all your projects and nested folders from one side menu, instead of clicking into each one individually.
Anyone navigating Tableau Server or Cloud with multiple nested project folders will recognise the old workflow: click into a project, look around, click back out, repeat. This feature targets exactly that friction.
- Find the project tree icon 0:00
Log into Tableau Cloud or Server on 2025.1 and look for a new icon on the top left of the Viz Portal (the main projects interface) — this opens the project tree.
- Open the side menu to browse folders 0:22
Clicking the icon opens a side panel showing your project structure, including nested subfolders, without navigating into any of them. It only shows projects you personally have access to.
- Expand nested folders in place 0:43
You can expand any folder in the tree to see what's inside it directly from the side menu, which replaces the old click-in-then-click-back-out workflow for exploring structure.
- This was a community-requested feature, so it's been on Tableau's radar for a while before landing in 2025.1.
- Visibility is permission-scoped — the tree only shows projects and folders you already have access to, not the full instance structure.
Reach for this when you're managing or navigating a Tableau instance with many nested projects and need to quickly locate or check a folder without repeatedly clicking in and out.
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