# Let end-users show and hide filters and more with this extension | What's new Tableau 2022.3

> 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:** 2022-11-21
- **Format:** Video · 12 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, dashboards, extensions, filters)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/let-end-users-show-and-hide-filters-and-more-with-this-extension-what-s-new-tableau-2022-3
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E67si4B7O54

I walk through the Add Filters dashboard extension I missed back in Tableau 2022.2, demonstrating how to add and configure it in Web Edit on the Superstore shipping trends dashboard. I show what it actually does, where it falls short, and why it really works as a show-and-hide element control rather than a true add-filters tool.

## Key takeaways

- The Add Filters extension only lets end-users show and hide filters, sheets and other dashboard elements that already exist on the dashboard — it can't pull new filters from the data source.
- Extensions are configured after being dragged on: use the object's drop-down and select Configure to choose which filters, sheets and elements users can toggle.
- To set up a hide-by-default workflow, the author must add filters, configure the extension, then disable them so end-users can re-add them.
- The consumer interface only shows icons with no hierarchy or labels, so non-author users won't recognise the tiled, filter or title icons.
- Sandbox extensions are validated by Tableau and don't need to communicate with the outside world, making them more secure than the original non-sandboxed extensions.

## Chapters

- 0:08 What extensions are in Tableau
- 0:41 Adding the Add Filters extension in Web Edit
- 3:00 Configuring filters, sheets and elements
- 4:23 Publishing and testing as an end-user
- 5:15 Where the extension falls short
- 9:24 The disable-then-readd author workflow
- 11:04 Sandbox extensions and final thoughts

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/let-end-users-show-and-hide-filters-and-more-with-this-extension-what-s-new-tableau-2022-3

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