5 Steps to Enabling a Multi-Select Parameter Control in Tableau
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 team for making this a reality. Step 1: Create a […]
Advance with Assist: Tableau Power User Leaving the Company
Tableau purchased Power Tools in 2019. Contact Us for more information. Here’s the InterWorks Assist question for this week’s post: “I have a situation where one of our power users left the company, and I’m having trouble finding the data connections related to them as they aren’t published connections. Is there any easy way to […]
Tables in Tableau: Jazzing It Up with a Purpose, Part 3
We have now reached the final part of our Tableau Tables Trilogy. For this part, we will be covering what I call the table/chart combo. Why do this? The reason is quite simple. More often than not, people consume data in a table format, spending years consuming tables in Excel, PowerPoint or even Word. So, […]
Portals for Tableau New Feature Spotlight: Dynamic Filter Updates
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 back with a pretty big improvement, for both usability and […]
Recapping InterWorks’ London Team Day
When InterWorkers meet, we not only talk about Tableau and how to help people better understand their data, we also like to be challenged and challenge each other! This time, right after Tableau Conference Europe 2018, we were invited to join London Team Day. For those who don’t know, we have a tradition of naming […]
A Quick Overview of Embedded Analytics in Portals for Tableau
At InterWorks, we live and breathe Tableau. It is an awesome product that helps us to analyse data, draw insights and share them across all types of businesses and industries. Over the last few years, however, clients had been asking us for a public facing embedded analytics solution. Portals the platform was born! What Are Portals […]
InterWorks Blog Roundup – June 2018
Let’s be real: It’s too hot to go outside right now, so why not stay in the A/C and catch up on some reading? June featured our usual variety of useful Tableau tips as well as some really topical vizzes ranging from the World Cup to LGTBQ Pride. And what’s that? Snowflakes in June? That’s right! […]
The Internet Will Eat Me: Part 1 – Email and Browser Settings
This started as a short blog on my paranoia and quickly escalated. I am breaking it into two parts, describing a small piece of my exaggerated plunge into the depths of personal data security on the internet. If you read my last blog, you may have witnessed something profound. A few days after the last […]
Advance with Assist: Enhancing Dashboards with Custom Icons
This week’s question came from a longtime Tableau user, but they just aren’t happy with the way their dashboard looked: “The attached dashboard just doesn’t have the bang that I’m going for. Any tips you can think of to enhance it? There are maps with the issue location and the visits associated with the corresponding […]
Tables in Tableau: Jazzing It Up with a Purpose, Part 2
Following the previous blog post, today we will be covering several ways to display negative values in tables. My go-to option is to add colour to the visualisation to highlight the values that need attention; however, there are different ways we can use colour. As in any other type of analysis or visualisation, we must always keep […]