# Tableau Pulse Latest Updates Jan 2025 | Goals, offsets, sorting, grouping and more

> 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:** 2025-01-25
- **Format:** Video · 22 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Analytics, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (ai, cloud, dashboards, prep, pulse)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-pulse-latest-updates-jan-2025-goals-offsets-sorting-grouping-and-more
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-7NmuHdAKU

I walk through the Tableau Pulse updates that landed across 2024 but I hadn't covered yet, logging back in after a couple of months away. I demonstrate goals, date offsets, sorting and grouping, the improved ask experience, and embedding Pulse metrics in dashboards.

## Key takeaways

- Use the Tableau Release Navigator and filter to Tableau Pulse to track what's new, as Pulse updates monthly rather than on the standard release cadence
- Pulse Goals let you set a measure-based target, ideally fed from a separate aggregated data model joined by date and department rather than joining budgets directly to transactional data
- Date offsets in the metric definition let a metric lock to a week or month behind today, which suits weekly or end-of-month reporting cycles where data doesn't arrive same-day
- Asking questions in the ask pane can spin up new dynamic metrics you can follow, and sorting/grouping by metric definition, data source or time range persists across web and mobile
- You can now drop a Pulse metric into a dashboard from the same published data source, choosing whether to link it back to Pulse, though categorical dashboard filters don't pass through to it

## Chapters

- 0:00 Logging back into Tableau Pulse
- 0:22 The legacy vs new interface
- 2:19 Tracking updates with Release Navigator
- 4:01 Setting up Pulse Goals
- 10:07 Sorting and grouping metrics
- 12:13 Improved ask experience
- 14:41 Date offsets in metric definitions
- 16:22 Embedding Pulse metrics in dashboards
- 20:54 Personalised insights and wrap-up

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-pulse-latest-updates-jan-2025-goals-offsets-sorting-grouping-and-more

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