# Tableau Pulse Digests | New in Tableau 2024.1

> 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:** 2024-04-02
- **Format:** Video · 15 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, pulse)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-pulse-digests-new-in-tableau-2024-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRFo8dgahKM

I walk through Tableau Pulse digests and the mobile experience in Tableau 2024.1, showing how to configure digest settings, and how Pulse turns up in Slack, the Tableau mobile app, and email. I compare each channel against the browser version and flag where the integration still feels incomplete.

## Key takeaways

- Digest settings live under the top-right icon then Preferences, where you enable Slack and email and set frequency (defaulting to monthly), but the send time is centrally managed by Tableau and not editable.
- Slack delivery uses the Tableau connected app and requires the Slack admin and Tableau Cloud admin to cooperate; digest links deep-link straight into Pulse, though metric preview images don't currently load.
- The Slack digest's 'Manage Digest' and 'metrics you follow' links expose useful URLs you can share with colleagues, which aren't otherwise easy to grab from the Preferences page.
- The Tableau mobile app simply embeds a mobile-optimised browser version of Pulse rather than a native experience; you can view applied filters but not change them, and Pulse favourites stay separate from Tableau Cloud favourites.
- Across Slack, mobile and email, Pulse still feels like a second-class citizen rather than a blended experience, with deeper dashboard-to-metric integration expected in future releases.

## Chapters

- 0:36 Configuring digest preferences
- 2:45 The Slack digest experience
- 6:00 The Tableau mobile experience
- 11:37 The email digest experience
- 13:13 Where the integration falls short

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-pulse-digests-new-in-tableau-2024-1

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