# Tableau 2023.2 features announced | Coming soon

> 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:** 2023-06-01
- **Format:** Video · 2333 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Alteryx; Tableau (bridge, catalog, cloud, embedding, formatting, maps, prep, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2023-2-features-announced-coming-soon
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3E5efnM3qg

I walk through the Tableau 2023.2 "coming soon" page released straight after conference, covering the cloud-only features that have been announced. I cover everything from line patterns and multi-row calculations in Prep through to new connectors, embedding API updates, mobile and governance enhancements.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 2023.2 is a cloud-only release, with these features arriving on Tableau Server in 23.3.
- Multi-row calculations come to Tableau Prep, letting you bake moving averages, running totals and lookup calculations into your data without table calcs.
- Admins gain finer control over personal access tokens, including who can create them and validity periods from 1 to 365 days, with PATs disabled by default after 23.2.
- New connectors include Salesforce Data Cloud, Google Analytics 4, Amazon S3 (parquet/CSV/Excel via Hyper) and Amazon Athena with third-party identity providers.
- Image roles now support SVG, WebP and more, with limits raised to 100 images and 200KB, opening up much sharper, scalable visuals.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Release context and caveats
- 0:58 Line patterns for trend lines
- 1:50 Multi-row calculations in Tableau Prep
- 3:21 Personal access token admin controls
- 5:55 Editable alt text and unified tooltips
- 8:50 New data connectors
- 15:09 Lineage and Omnibox search
- 17:18 Scheduling and admin APIs
- 18:41 Virtual connections and view acceleration
- 21:56 Admin Insights and governance
- 26:07 Mobile enhancements
- 27:46 Embedding API and image roles

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2023-2-features-announced-coming-soon

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