# Replay animations

> 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:** 2022-01-08
- **Format:** Video · 1 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (dashboards, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/replay-animations
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5s__Q7xX8

I walk through a new feature in Tableau 21.4 that lets you replay animations in a published dashboard. Using a sample workbook, I show how the new replay button on a viz re-runs an animated transition without needing to manually change filters or years back and forth.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 21.4 adds a replay button that lets you re-run an animated transition without manually changing filters or parameters
- Animations show an animated transition between states when the dashboard author has enabled the feature
- For animations to work when published to server, you should filter down to a much smaller subset of data
- The replay button works by stepping back to the previous state and forward again to the current state

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/replay-animations

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