Today at work I ran into an unexpected behavior when using relationships in Tableau 2025.1.1 with the new feature of table specific data source filters. For those of you who might not be aware, this is the new feature I am talking about: Notice how we are now able to select the scope of the... Continue Reading →
Let’s build – A dynamic table allowing your viewers to select the drill down dimensions
Every now and then on the forums people are asking how they can provide their viewers at least to some degree the freedom to select the dimensions they (the viewers) want to make use of. Instead of just having the choice of seeing sales broken down by Category and Order Date, maybe they want to... Continue Reading →
Diagonal running sums in a table – 2nd edition (and why it is actually window sums)
Misunderstandings happen all over the place and Tableau and it's Forums are no exception to that rule. Specifically when referring to my last blog entry on the above matter, the provided data was so simplified that my resulting understanding turned out to be wrong. What the user wanted was not - as I had deduced... Continue Reading →
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