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How to add animations to your Tableau vizzes If you already have vizzes saved to your Tableau Public profile, adding animations to your vizzes is easy. Login to Tableau Web Click on a viz in your profile. Click ‘Edit’ to edit the viz in your browser. Click  Format  >  Animations  >  On Save the viz, and close out of web authoring.

Visual Best Practices Tableau The fonts, colors, shading, alignment, borders, and grid lines in your visualization are important parts of both your analysis and the story you're telling. Tableau products are designed so that you can create great-looking visualizations that use visual best practices by default, freeing you from the need to think about things like fonts and colors—unless you want to. If you do want to customize, you can control the look of almost everything you see on a worksheet. This article outlines visual best practices and tips to keep in mind while you customize, from ideal workflow to how to get the most out of tooltips. Format from largest to smallest As you change the look and feel of your work, use a "biggest to smallest" workflow. Start by formatting fonts and titles at the workbook level, then move on to the worksheet level. Save formatting the individual parts of a view for last. A workbook is the largest possible "container" for form

Group items using layout containers in Tableau Layout containers let you group related dashboard items together so you can quickly position them. As you change the size and placement of items inside a container, other container items automatically adjust. Layout container types A horizontal layout container resizes the width of the views and objects it contains; a vertical layout container adjusts height. Horizontal layout container The two views below are arranged in a horizontal layout container. Vertical layout container The three views below are stacked in a vertical layout container. Add a layout container Under  Objects  on the Dashboard pane, select  Horizontal  or  Vertical . Drag the container to the dashboard. Add views and objects to the layout container. Evenly distribute a layout container's items Select the layout container. If you have trouble doing this, select an individual item within the container and choose  Select Container  from its shortcut menu. With the lay

Size and Layout of Tableau Dashboard After you create a dashboard, you might need to resize and reorganize it to work better for your users. Control overall dashboard size Dashboard size options Fixed size (default) : The dashboard remains the same size, regardless of the size of the window used to display it. If the dashboard is larger than the window, it becomes scrollable. You can pick from a preset size, such as Desktop Browser (the default), Small Blog, and iPad. Fixed size dashboards let you specify the exact location and position of objects, which can be useful if there are floating objects. Select this setting if you know the precise size at which your dashboard will be displayed. Published dashboards that use a fixed size can load faster because they're more likely to use a cached version on the server. (Dashboards with variable sizes need to be freshly rendered for every browser request.)  Range : The dashboard scales between minimum and maximum sizes that you specify. If

Padding or White space in Tableau Padding can be applied to individual sheets which are used in a dashboard. When you open the dashboard, you have two tabs on the left pane, 1) dashboard and 2) Layout tab , From the Layout tab you can change the inner or outer padding for a sheet or viz used in the dashboard.  You  can add space to one or more sides individually, or check the All sides equal box to add padding equally to all sides of an item. For a more subtle effect, use   Outer  and   Inner Padding   to add white space to the area outside or inside an item’s border as shown below. 

M ark labels are not showing for all data  labels in Tableau dashboard. When there are 5 labels part of dimension columns like Country. Country USA Germany India UK France Then when we have data fr only 3 countries USA, Germany and India and no data for UK and France, The table omits data labels for UK and france as shown below: Country   Sales USA  100M Germany  50M India  90M Instead if should show like this: Country   Sales USA  100M Germany  50M India  90M UK   France   In order to achieve that the simple trick is to do this: Open the sheet were the data is like the above, Go to Analysis menu Select Table Layout Select 'Show Empty Rows' as shown in the screenshot below :

Evaluation order of calculations Evaluation order is the order in which objects are calculated by MicroStrategy’s Analytical Engine. Changing the order in which data is calculated can change report results. You change the evaluation order of a report’s data calculation by changing the order in which compound smart metrics, consolidations, derived metrics, derived elements, report limits, and subtotals on the report are calculated. The  default order of calculation is as follows: Compound smart metrics (which are compound metrics with smart totals enabled) Consolidations, which are evaluated by their relative position on the report template: Rows, from left to right Columns, from top to bottom Report limits Subtotals Compound metrics that are not the direct aggregations of other metrics can be used in the evaluation order by setting the  Allow Smart Metrics  option of the Metric Editor to  Yes .

Replace a sheet in Tableau dashboard 1. To replace a sheet, select it in the dashboard at right. 2. In the Sheets list at left, hover over the replacement sheet, and click the  Swap Sheets   button. Note:  When you replace a sheet, Tableau retains any padding, border, or background color. However, you may need to adjust sheet size if content differs significantly. You may also need to delete dashboard items specific to the previous sheet, such as filters, which become blank.

Parameter control to switch measures Solution Sheet:  Select a Measure Parameters