# Tableau Pulse Updates March 24 | New in Tableau 2024.1

> 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:** 2024-04-04
- **Format:** Video · 9 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Analytics, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, pulse)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-pulse-updates-march-24-new-in-tableau-2024-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz1beCXPnc0

I walk through the behind-the-scenes Tableau Pulse updates rolled out in March 2024, and show you how to track them via the Tableau Release Navigator since they arrive outside the normal release cadence. I cover five specific changes, from ad hoc questions to fixes for pre-aggregated fields.

## Key takeaways

- The Tableau Release Navigator is the most up-to-date, detailed list of changes across the whole Tableau product suite, and you can filter it down to just Tableau Pulse
- Because Pulse is cloud and browser only, updates roll out continuously rather than waiting for the now three-times-a-year release cycle
- Some Tableau Cloud instances run slightly ahead of the release cadence, which explains why users see bugs that others on a more advanced instance don't
- New March features include ad hoc questions matched to existing insights, applied filters shown above the chart, improved metric recommendations from dashboards, and clearer navigation back to Tableau Cloud
- Pre-aggregated fields in metric definitions, previously a bug for many users, have now been pushed live in Pulse

## Chapters

- 0:09 Why Pulse updates happen off-cycle
- 0:57 Using the Tableau Release Navigator
- 1:37 Why I missed some Pulse issues
- 3:08 Ad hoc questions for insights
- 4:18 Applied filters shown for metric
- 4:53 Improved metric recommendations for dashboards
- 6:16 Improved navigation options
- 6:58 Pre-aggregated fields fix
- 7:43 What's coming next on the channel

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-pulse-updates-march-24-new-in-tableau-2024-1

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