# Tableau 2023.3 Coming Soon!

> 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:** 2023-09-07
- **Format:** Video · 27 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (bridge, cloud, data modelling, embedding, extensions, parameters, prep, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2023-3-coming-soon
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AoqoRe2OPU

I walk through the Tableau 2023.3 coming soon page and break down everything shipping in this release, from Dynamic Axis Ranges and Prep enhancements to embedding improvements, containerised Bridge for Linux, and admin tooling. I also share my view that this release feels lighter than usual as Tableau pours its effort into GPT, Pulse and the cloud.

## Key takeaways

- Dynamic Axis Ranges lets you map an axis to a parameter so it changes natively as the dataset selection changes, building on the earlier Dynamic Axis Titles feature.
- On-demand access in embedding automatically licenses and provisions users at login, which suits usage-based token licensing where you don't know when customers will sign in.
- Stratified sampling in Prep lets you pick a field so the sample is proportioned by that grouping, avoiding nasty surprises when the full dataset runs.
- Tableau Bridge now supports embedded data sources and can run containerised on Red Hat Linux, cutting the effort and Windows licensing cost of server-to-cloud migrations.
- The release is noticeably lighter, suggesting dev effort has pivoted toward Tableau GPT, Pulse and a cloud-first roadmap.

## Chapters

- 0:05 Release context after conference
- 1:41 Dynamic Axis Ranges and drip-feeding debate
- 3:37 Custom data labels
- 4:26 Salesforce Lightning web component
- 5:22 On-demand access and embedding API NPM library
- 9:11 Stratified sampling in Prep
- 10:43 More Prep enhancements
- 12:04 Write to Salesforce Data Cloud
- 13:10 Virtual connections and containerised Bridge
- 15:54 Bridge for embedded data sources
- 17:27 Admin and activity log enhancements
- 19:36 Autosave and login flow updates

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2023-3-coming-soon

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