# This change to Blending might confuse you! | New in Tableau 2022.4

> 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:** 2023-01-17
- **Format:** Video · 4 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (blending, cloud)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/this-change-to-blending-might-confuse-you-new-in-tableau-2022-4
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObDrq12Y08E

I walk through a subtle UI change to data blending in Tableau 2022.4, comparing the old 2022.3 desktop look, the new 2022.4 desktop icons, and the current web edit version. I share why I think the older colouring made the blend much clearer, and ask for your opinion on whether this is an improvement or a regression.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 2022.4 changes the blending link icon and removes the orange colouring that previously flagged the linked field on desktop.
- The old 2022.3 version arguably communicated the blend more clearly because the linked field was both visibly linked and coloured orange.
- The new icon change is tiny (roughly a 5x5 area) and easy to miss compared to the colour cue it replaces.
- Web edit currently sits in the worst position: old icons, no source-level colouring, and no colouring on the link itself.
- The change may make more sense in the context of a future Tableau interface that isn't yet public, so it could be a necessary step rather than a pure regression.

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/this-change-to-blending-might-confuse-you-new-in-tableau-2022-4

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