# What's new with Tableau Developer tools: New in Tableau 2022.1

> 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:** 2022-04-05
- **Format:** Video · 62 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (embedding, extensions, hyper api, metrics, rest api, webhooks)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/what-s-new-with-tableau-developer-tools-new-in-tableau-2022-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Id2PLIEsM

I'm joined by my Information Lab colleague Andre, a Tableau Data Dev Ambassador, to walk through what's new in the Tableau developer space around the 2022.1 release. We cover Andre's route into data dev, the Tableau Data Dev programme, the connect-integrate-automate API families, and three recent arrivals: connected apps, the embedding API v3 and embedded metrics.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau's developer APIs fall into three buckets — connect (connector SDK, hyper API, web data connector), integrate (embedding API, dashboard extensions) and automate (REST API, webhooks).
- Connected apps replace trusted authentication for Tableau Online, using industry-standard JSON web tokens (JWTs) and letting you scope access to projects, sites and specific domains.
- Embedding API v3 is a ground-up rewrite built on web components (the tableau-viz tag), promising easier integration, better performance and readiness for the death of third-party cookies.
- Andre's embedding playground lets you mock up an embed, tweak properties like toolbar, tabs, width and device, then copy the generated HTML straight into another tool.
- Embedded metrics let you drop a single lightweight number into tools like Notion, Slack or Teams, taking analytics to where people already work rather than forcing them into Tableau.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Meet Andre and how we know each other
- 3:16 Andre's route into data dev
- 5:57 Staying motivated learning web development
- 12:20 What is a Tableau Data Dev
- 15:06 The Tableau API families: connect, integrate, automate
- 22:19 Connected apps explained
- 30:17 Embedding API v3 and web components
- 35:07 The embedding playground demo
- 45:08 Embedded metrics
- 49:06 Where Tableau's developer tools are heading

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/what-s-new-with-tableau-developer-tools-new-in-tableau-2022-1

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