# What's coming soon in Tableau 2023.1 | New in Tableau 2023.1

> 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:** 2023-03-06
- **Format:** Video · 31 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Snowflake; Tableau (accelerators, calculated fields, catalog, cloud, data stories, embedding, identity pools, prep, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/what-s-coming-soon-in-tableau-2023-1-new-in-tableau-2023-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjPTr2oQuhU

I'm back after a break to walk through the coming soon features in Tableau 2023.1. I cover the new release across Tableau Desktop, Prep, Server and Cloud, including identity pools, user attribute functions, Prep input step improvements, cross-database joins for Snowflake and a batch of features arriving on Server from previous releases.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau Prep's input step now lets you bulk select multiple columns to hide or remove them, plus a relative date filter for date/time fields, which narrows the data and improves flow performance.
- Identity pools for Tableau Server break the single identity store limitation, letting external users like contractors authenticate separately while staff use corporate active directory.
- New user attribute functions (USERATTRIBUTE and USERATTRIBUTEINCLUDES) let embedded applications pass attributes that calculations can read, which is powerful for embedded setups.
- Cross-database joins now work for Snowflake and use an optimiser that executes the join in the database holding the larger dataset when that's faster, reducing network I/O.
- 23.1 is a Server update, so around eight features from 2022.x finally arrive for Server users, though most organisations will wait for 23.3 stability patches before upgrading.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Intro and apology
- 1:04 What to expect from 23.1
- 2:16 Accelerator mapping and Slack
- 4:13 Dynamic axis titles and identity pools
- 6:15 User attribute functions and mobile security
- 10:00 Catalog search and web authoring
- 11:39 Tableau Prep improvements
- 13:57 Virtual connections and migration tools
- 16:48 New connectors and cross-database joins
- 19:11 Admin Insights and data quality
- 21:01 Mobile and embedding updates
- 22:21 Accelerator and access enhancements

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/what-s-coming-soon-in-tableau-2023-1-new-in-tableau-2023-1

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