# Tableau Online Site URI: New in Tableau 2021.4 & 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:** 2022-04-07
- **Format:** Video · 6 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Tool strategy, Productivity
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-online-site-uri-new-in-tableau-2021-4-2022-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ_c0zWRgDE

I cover a change to the Tableau Online login process introduced in 2021.4 and 2022.1 that requires you to know your site URI. I show what the site URI is, how to find it from your original invite email, and how to use text expansion to avoid memorising it.

## Key takeaways

- The site URI is the unique identifier in the Tableau Online URL, equivalent to a site URL on Tableau Server, and is now required at login
- You can recover your site name by searching Gmail for 'onlinemail.tableau.com invited' to find your original invitation emails
- To convert the site name into a URI, remove the hyphens and use lowercase, though Tableau will often resolve it even if you don't
- Text expansion tools like Alfred let you map a short keyword to your full email and site URI so you never have to retype them
- The change improves security alongside mandatory two-factor authentication, making social engineering attacks on Tableau Online accounts harder

## Chapters

- 0:24 What the site URI is
- 0:59 Finding your site from invite emails
- 1:51 Converting the name to a URI and logging in
- 2:39 Using text expansion with Alfred
- 5:04 Why this change improves security

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-online-site-uri-new-in-tableau-2021-4-2022-1

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