# Personal Access Tokens have a new management feature in Tableau 23-2. #tableau #analytics #data

> 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:** 2023-08-14
- **Format:** Short · 1 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Analytics, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/personal-access-tokens-have-a-new-management-feature-in-tableau-23-2-tableau-analytics-data
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C265A5fSATU

I explain what personal access tokens are in Tableau and how they let you replace your username and password with a more secure token containing a secret for use with the Tableau REST API. I also cover the new management feature in 23.2 that gives admins control over them.

## Key takeaways

- Personal access tokens replace your username and password with a token plus a secret, offering a more secure way to authenticate against the Tableau REST API
- In Tableau 23.2, admins can control which groups are allowed to create personal access tokens
- Admins can now set an expiration date for each individual token created

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/personal-access-tokens-have-a-new-management-feature-in-tableau-23-2-tableau-analytics-data

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