By incident, today's blog post is somewhat related to my last post and once again comes straight out of the Tableau forums where the solution I am going to share has been very well received. Apparently, this is a topic that concerns many users. The question asked was how we could show each single item … Continue reading How to show filter selection and custom “all selection” on text marks
Category: Design & Layout
How to show the selected time frame and a warning if it is broken
A quite common request is to display what the user has selected within a filter. In our today's case what we will do is to show within the header the selected date range plus a warning if the dates have a break in it. That is, if the user selects January, February and April, the … Continue reading How to show the selected time frame and a warning if it is broken
Another quickie on aliasing
Have you ever encountered that you were creating BANs (Big (Buttocks) Numbers) and wanted to show sub-segments as well as the total side by side all in one sheet? Let's do an example: Connect to superstore sample data and but segment on columns. Sales goes on Text. Add "Totals" from the Analytics pane This is … Continue reading Another quickie on aliasing
Centered dashboards
Here is a quickie on dashboards. Ever encountered that your published workbooks just don't center? Try publishing them with dashboards only selected. Do not publish individual worksheets in addition. For unknown reasons this will cause Tableau to left align instead of center. if you only publish dashboards all will center. That's it. Have a great … Continue reading Centered dashboards
A quickie on renaming and aliases
In many cases your data source will provide you with rather technical column names, be it dimension or measures. Or, you are usually fine with the naming but for a specific table or chart you just need that slightly changed name label to make it even clearer for your audience. Now what usually you would … Continue reading A quickie on renaming and aliases
A Quickie on bar chart labelling
For today I have a quick tip on creating a specific labelling for bar charts. This has come out of Workout Wednesday 2021 Week 44. Usually, labels are either at the end of the bar chart (automatic / right), at the end but inside the bar (left) or inside centered (center alignment). But what if … Continue reading A Quickie on bar chart labelling
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