For today, we will do a rather short quickie. Imagine you are tasked with providing a dynamic view that can alter between say weekly, monthly, yearly and you want to show always time-period end values. Create a string parameter and insert there whatever you need, for example the values outlined before. Then, create this calculation:... Continue Reading →
How to remove null values from date fields || Let’s have a (word about) date(s) (1/6)
Assume you have a data source with dates and some other values but some rows in your date column are empty. These will show as null values in Tableau: So, how can we replace these null values with something else, an alias? With any ordinary dimension, you can simply right click and select "edit alias".... Continue Reading →
Quickie on combining index and sub totals
In case you encounter the problem that you want to number your table by using index and still add a subtotal and thereby run into this here is the workaround: Copy your dimension which you intent to number using the index. In the above example, it is customer name. Put the original customer name to... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 Do not publish individual worksheets in addition.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 →
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 Filters, actions and tooltips
Almost certainly during the course of work with Tableau one will encounter the issue of trying to implement a tooltip and at the same time using a dashboard action or a quick filter that shall also filter the tooltip. Starting with the action filters Unfortunately, we cannot pass through the action as a filter to... Continue Reading →
Quickie: Show totals only for one column in a text table but keep all details in the other columns
For today I got a tip which mostly is layout'ish but also somewhat data privacy related The question was how we could get a table like this: to only show Details for in this example the sales but profits should only be shown in the (Sub) Total line. Building on Jeff Shaffer's great blog post... Continue Reading →
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 nested table calculations
When speaking about table calculations a repeated request is to show ranking over time based on for example cumulative sales. Usually, the question will be why what the asker is doing does not work as intended. Lets have a look at the most common reason.
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