# Virtual connections support for Salesforce data: New in Tableau 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:** 2022-04-13
- **Format:** Video · 5 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data prep, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (data policies, extracts, virtual connections)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/virtual-connections-support-for-salesforce-data-new-in-tableau-2022-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSGqyekPT_o

I walk through a new feature in Tableau 2022.1 that lets you use Salesforce as a connection type within virtual connections. I show how to authenticate, bring in standard Salesforce tables, manage extracts centrally, and set up data policies for row-level entitlement.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 2022.1 adds Salesforce as a connection type for virtual connections, authenticating automatically through the API and surfacing your existing Salesforce connections
- Using a virtual connection gives you a single governed, managed connection to Salesforce instead of many separate ones, and centrally manages extracts for everyone connected
- This feature requires the Data Management add-on, since virtual connections are part of that licensing
- Virtual connections to Salesforce only support managed extracts, not live connections
- You can apply data policies for row-level security by using a table such as the user table as an entitlement table and matching its columns (like owner ID or contact ID) to your data fields

## Chapters

- 0:00 Connecting to Salesforce
- 0:57 Bringing in standard tables
- 1:21 Governance, extracts and the add-on
- 1:55 Setting up data policies

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/virtual-connections-support-for-salesforce-data-new-in-tableau-2022-1

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