A video version of this blog is available here: Typically, the customization of Top N filters in Tableau involves allowing the user to pick the number of records, or N, that shows in a visualization. What if we could add even more customization by allowing the...
Tableau is a robust tool that allows you to build dashboards in a multitude of ways, which is part of what makes it great. The flip side is that it can be easy to let little inefficiencies pile up and affect the ultimate performance of...
Having trouble getting rid of your grid lines? Wanting to make your trend line thicker? Need help removing the shading from the headers in your table? You’ve come to the right place. As a Tableau developer or Tableau data analyst, you’ll need to know how to...
In Part two of this series, we covered a method of distillation to reduce data volume and size. However, we need to translate our distilled records into their non-distilled forms. In addition, we’ll cover the concept of global and local filters and how to effectively...
In our last blog, we gave you some tips on how to create worksheets that will bring your users a delightful search analytics experience, but what if you want to build some pre-built analyses for users needing to quickly consume visual data that can then...
Check out the workaround described here on Tableau Public: Tableau Filtering - Keep Null Out of List | Tableau Public TL;DR – With this workaround in Tableau, you can always include a category in a viz while not including it as on option in a filter,...
One of the biggest selling points for Portals is the power of their filters. They’re web-friendly, fully customizable, dynamic and even sticky from dashboard to dashboard. We get a lot of questions from users who want to pull the filter options from the dashboard dynamically,...
This question comes from my student Christie. She wanted a quick way to create a date slider that started after a certain point in her data. The issue is, if you set your Range of dates or Starting Date filter to begin at a certain...
Question: Our users are finding themselves clicking the same filters when they log onto dashboards they have access to. They are curious if there is a way for us to isolate the data for them only. How can we accomplish this without changing our data...
Question: I have a long list of products in my data, but I no longer want the user to be able to select a certain few. I don’t want to exclude the data from my extract, so what other options do I have? This question could...
While attending the Tableau Conference in London, we received many interesting questions. I want to share one of them here. We want to see sales performance over time. What if we sometimes want to compare different sub-categories separately and just want to see the development...
Question: "Tableau isn’t functioning the way I expect it to. I want to click on a chart and have it affect the two other sheets on the dashboard, but it won’t do what I want it to." To see what was going on with this question, we...
Portals for Tableau have had the ability to populate the filter and parameter options from the dashboard’s data. This is great if they change for each user or if you just don’t want to type them into the portal when creating the filter or parameter....
This post continues from Building Filters in Alteryx for Tableau, Part 1. In this, the foundation filter calculations were built. I advise going through Part 1 before looking at this section. If you would like to follow on with the workflow, it is possible to...
If you’ve evolved to the point where your dashboards are crunching gobs of data and are powerful enough to warrant numerous filters and parameters to drill down for myriad uses, you may have been annoyed with waiting for each filter to be applied before being...
Recently, I was required to prepare data in Alteryx and output it into a .Hyper file to create a Tableau workbook. The data that was being utilised looked at past sales and potential future sales. The dataset was a very large dataset, over 20 million...
The multi-select parameter control is a feature many that Tableau enthusiasts would love to take advantage of. While the multi-select parameter option isn’t available natively within Tableau, we’ve enabled the multi-select parameter feature within Portals for Tableau! Big props to Matthew Orr and the Portals...
Ever wish your Portals for Tableau filters could be dynamic? Or even your portal parameters? You’re in luck! You may have seen Data Driven Filters (also works for parameters) on your portal - it even made our recap of last year’s best features. Now we’re...
Tableau recently introduced the viz in tooltip feature to Tableau Desktop, allowing users to add a whole new level of detail to dashboards and worksheets. For those who have been using Tableau for a while, you are already familiar with the impact a strong tooltip...
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane. Looking back early in your career, if you needed to crunch some numbers, you clicked on Microsoft Excel, figured out how to get your data into the spreadsheet, massaged it some and then hand-built some calculations and charts. It was somewhat...
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