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title: Explore Tableau Next in the Slack Side Pane
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description: When a Tableau Next metric, dashboard, or viz is shared in Slack, users can click the preview to open a side pane in Slack that shows details and live insights.
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# Explore Tableau Next in the Slack Side Pane

When a Tableau Next metric, dashboard, or viz is shared in Slack, users can click the preview to open a side pane in Slack that shows details and live insights.

### Required Editions

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            <th scope="colgroup" class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d35443e56">User Permissions Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d35443e56 ">To share metrics in Slack: </td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d35443e56 "><span>Tableau Unmetered Consumer or Tableau Next Consumer</span> or <span>Tableau Unmetered Self-Service Consumer or Tableau Next Self-Service Consumer</span>
              permission set</td>

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Ask your Slack and Salesforce admins to [Enable Slack for Tableau Next](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.tua_admin_enable_slack_collab.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "When enabled, users can share Tableau Next links in Slack with a preview of the metric. After an admin Connects Salesforce and Slack, previews sent in Slack are displayed according to the senders’ permission access that is governed by Tableau Next. And this seamless integration between Slack and Tableau Next requires no additional apps. From Slack or Tableau Next, users can view related conversations that they have access to about Tableau Next analytics that have been shared in Slack.").

1. From Slack, click the preview of a Tableau Next metric, dashboard, or viz to open the side pane.
2. In the right pane, see insights about the data.
3. Click **Refresh** to see the latest data within Slack.
4. Click **Explore in Tableau Next** to open the metric, dashboard, or viz in the Tableau Next app in Salesforce.