Changelog

[2.0.0] - 03-03-2026

VizSlides 2.0 is a major refresh focused on native images, speed, flexibility, and broader Microsoft Office support.

Added

• A new sidebar experience to insert and manage Tableau content faster.
• Support for more Office apps: PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Tableau Public flow for easy setup and sharing (including a free-use path).
• Better filtering options, including image-specific filters and global filters across visuals.
• Improved setup and authentication screens, including PAT-related setup improvements.
• Faster loading and better handling of workbooks, views, and image requests.

Improved

• Overall UI and navigation for selecting projects, workbooks, sheets, and views.
• Reliability of image refresh and slide updates.
• Outlook handling (including insert flow, sizing/aspect ratio, and attachment behavior).
• Login/session flow, token refresh, and general stability for Tableau connections.
• Build and release workflow to make deployment and manifest handling more consistent.

[1.5.0] - 24-05-2024

• Enabled scrollbars when dashboards exceed the size of the container.
• Added a configuration option to change the size of the dashboard in the PowerPoint.
• Fixed a bug where the cookie was not readable.
• Added more logging. Enable this by adding DEBUG=true in the .env file.
• Added a parameter to change the stream quality. Enable this by adding QUALITY=0-100 in the .env file. (Default is QUALITY=75)

[1.4.1] - 20-10-2023

• Added landingpage when opening in a web browser.

[1.4.0] - 21-06-2023

• Added support for custom parameters in the URL.
• Added option in toolbar to hide the toolbar in presentation mode.

[1.3.0] - 07-06-2023

• Fixed running VizSlides on PowerPoint on the web in presentation mode.
• Added session listeners and inactivity support.
• Session stability improvements.
• Fixed several bugs.
• Performance improvements.
• Added support for Docker containers. Contact us for more info.

[1.2.0] - 27-03-2023

• Added support for switching to native images when using Server or Online.
• Removed the toolbar by default.
• Fixed the default manifest, throwing an error.

[1.1.1] - 16-12-2022

• Removed loading screen from Tableau Cloud/Server embedding view.

[1.1.0] - 16-11-2022

• Added embedding parameters for Cloud / Server URLs when using PowerPoint Desktop.
• Improvement Filter menu messages.
• Improved UX when setting up VizSlides.

[1.0.0] - 08-11-2022

release 1.0.0