# Tableau's New Radial Chart Type | Tableau 2024.2 and Newer

> 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:** 2025-12-08
- **Format:** Video · 7 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (dashboards, extensions, formatting, radial)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-s-new-radial-chart-type-tableau-2024-2-and-newer
- **Watch:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=AWMa_aCXhCg?si=2Vk5dandoANzZ2J6

I walk through Tableau's new radial chart extension, which lets you build donut charts, gauges, and multi-ring visualisations without the old pie chart hacks. I cover how to add the trusted Radial extension, build and interact with the chart, and explore its formatting options including angle, centre values, and colour palettes.

## Key takeaways

- The Radial chart type lives at the bottom of the Marks pane but requires adding the trusted Radial extension, hosted and built by Tableau, from the extensions marketplace.
- Although new in 2025.3, the Radial extension supports older versions back to Tableau 2024.2, so most recent installs already have it.
- Build a donut by dropping a dimension on Ring and a measure on Angle; add a second dimension for multi-ring charts, though only the outer ring is clickable.
- Adjusting the total and starting angles lets you create gauges and semicircles, and you can place a total figure in the centre with custom font sizing.
- Colour is locked to the first dimension you added and can only be changed via the palette, so apply brand palettes consistently across the workbook.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Adding the Radial extension
- 1:00 Trusted extensions explained
- 1:35 Building a donut and multi-ring chart
- 2:34 Dashboard interactivity and filtering
- 2:57 Formatting, gauges and centre values
- 4:59 Colours and palette limitations

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-s-new-radial-chart-type-tableau-2024-2-and-newer

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