Over my Christmas Holiday's I finally had a little bit of time to go back to practicing a bit / playing around with Workout Wednesday challenges and since I had't done so in a long time, there were plenty for me. Week 47 by Erica Hughes asked us to provide a solution to a three... Continue Reading →
How To select preceding periods with broken time ranges or cross year using sets.
Assume you have been tasked with creating an option for your users to freely select any (monthly) time period. This period shall be compared not to the previous year but to the preceding months. Example: Your user select Jan, Feb and March 2024, then your preceding periods would be Oct, Nov and Dec 2023. The... Continue Reading →
Dude, Where’s My S(C)roll b(ar)?
Anyone remember this move straight from the Millenium? Heavens, time flies. Anyways, I kinda felt like the guys in the movie today. After weeks of work on Tableau Desktop, I uploaded a Dashboard for final release. It was meant to be shared with a wide audience on our Tableau Cloud instance. Some checks here, some... Continue Reading →
An easy way to limit set selection
For today we shall have a look at an easy way to limit the number of selections like in this example. Create the sets First, start by right clicking Customers and select "create --> set". Select all customers and name it [SET - All customers]. Next, do the same again but this time don't select... Continue Reading →
Filter a table w/o filtering
For this month's posting we will have a look at how to enable your users to "filter" columns from a text table without actually filtering it. Why would that be needed? Well one idea could be that you have one of these massive tables (you know, the ones you do not want to built but... Continue Reading →
The Hidden Gems
Today, I will not be sharing a "how to" or anything else I did myself but I thought it might be time to shine (an additional) light on some great people that I consider the "hidden gems", Here is a list of names and their blogs I believe deserve (even) more recognition for what they... Continue Reading →
Tableau Adventurer 