# Unified notification experience: New in tableau 2021.1

> 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:** 2021-04-03
- **Format:** Video · 4 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Tool strategy, Productivity
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/unified-notification-experience-new-in-tableau-2021-1
- **Watch:** https://youtu.be/ZWESvoCOZsY

I walk through the new unified notification experience in Tableau 2021.1. I show how the redesigned notification centre keeps notifications until you remove them, lets you filter read and unread, and gives you settings to control where each type of notification arrives.

## Key takeaways

- The notification centre, accessed via the bell icon, now keeps notifications visible until you explicitly remove them, even after marking as read
- You can filter between read and unread notifications using separate tabs to help triage them quickly
- The gear icon takes you to a settings page where you choose whether to receive notifications in Tableau, by email, or both, per type (comments, mentions, flow runs, extract jobs)
- Webhooks currently only notify via email, with no in-Tableau option yet

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/unified-notification-experience-new-in-tableau-2021-1

---
just-tim — Data and analytics, with a point of view. · https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HYxRWmaNlJux-X7rNLZyw · https://twitter.com/TableauTim · https://www.linkedin.com/in/timngwena