# Tableau notifications in Slack: Alerts, mentions & comments: New in Tableau 2021.3

> 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:** 2021-10-07
- **Format:** Video · 17 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-notifications-in-slack-alerts-mentions-comments-new-in-tableau-2021-3
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MjIxER04JQ

I walk through the new Slack and Tableau integration introduced in Tableau 2021.3, showing how shares, mentions in comments, and data alerts trigger notifications directly in Slack. I then cover the full admin setup for connecting Slack to Tableau Online and approving the Tableau app.

## Key takeaways

- Notifications only work if your Slack and Tableau email addresses match exactly, since that's how Tableau matches accounts across both platforms
- The Tableau Slack app communicates with you personally, so notifications only reference content you already have access to
- Shares, comment mentions and data alerts all generate Slack notifications, with alerts including a zoomable screenshot of the entire view
- Setup requires being both a Slack workspace admin and a Tableau administrator, due to an OAuth authentication step
- Notifications must be enabled in two places: the site-level integration settings for everyone, and each user's own account settings for comments, shares and data alerts

## Chapters

- 0:21 How the Slack integration works
- 1:16 Sharing a view to Slack
- 2:47 Mentions in comments
- 4:08 Setting up data alerts
- 7:57 Teams support and Slack-First Analytics
- 9:28 Admin setup: connecting Slack
- 12:28 Approving the Tableau app in Slack
- 14:55 Notification settings for admins and users

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-notifications-in-slack-alerts-mentions-comments-new-in-tableau-2021-3

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