# What's in the Tableau 2022.3 Release

> 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:** 2022-10-03
- **Format:** Video · 2489 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Industry trends, Tool strategy, Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, data guide, data stories, embedding, extensions, prep, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/what-s-in-the-tableau-2022-3-release
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrmdcVxThSQ

I walk through the Tableau 2022.3 coming soon page and react to every feature live, from Data Guide and Table Extensions to Dynamic Zone Visibility. I also flag how many items are simply last release's cloud features now arriving on Tableau Server, and which capabilities sit behind paid add-ons.

## Key takeaways

- Data Guide is really three features bundled together: a dashboard explainer pane, Explain the Viz for outlier detection, and Data Change Radar (Tableau Cloud only) that snapshots data over time to flag unexpected values.
- Dynamic Zone Visibility lets you swap dashboard elements based on parameters or fields, replacing the old sheet-swapping hack with a more optimised approach.
- Table Extensions pipe calculations to R/Python services at the connection level in real time, unlike the precomputed analytics extensions approach.
- Many 2022.3 items are simply 2022.2 features finally reaching Tableau Server, which only updates twice a year, so server customers receive far fewer net-new capabilities.
- Several strong features (column-level data quality warnings, virtual connection improvements) require the paid Data Management add-on, and Data Stories now sending data to a cloud service can be disabled by admins.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Intro and the coming soon page
- 0:48 Data Guide
- 3:59 Table extensions
- 5:18 Dynamic zone visibility
- 6:54 Server scaling and activity log
- 9:51 Sharing and admin improvements
- 11:08 Copy dimension as a measure
- 13:47 Web authoring and data stories
- 15:43 Explain data notifications and embedding API
- 18:15 Personalised search and RMT
- 19:42 Prep error codes and CRM writeback
- 21:59 Data quality and external assets

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/what-s-in-the-tableau-2022-3-release

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