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Level Up: ‘Reset Filters’ Button (With No Highlighting!)
When you have a Tableau dashboard with lots of filtering options, it’s easy to dive too deep into the filters and get a bit lost. When that happens to your users, an easy “reset filters” button is a lifeline! Creating a handy one-click way to clear filters is an essential skill in every Tableau designer’s
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Building Low-Maintenance Dashboards
I try to avoid making super generalized statements about dashboard development, but here’s one: Manual maintenance on dashboards is not good. (By ‘manual maintenance’, I mean anything that requires you to periodically come back to the dashboard to change values, update calculations, edit visuals, etc, just to keep it working.) It can’t always be avoided,
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Zooming In (Dynamic Zones #5)
Tell me more, tell me more! In this post, we’ll look at how to use Tableau’s dynamic zone visibility to let users “zoom in” on dashboard elements to get to a more detailed view. (New to dynamic zones? Start here)
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Fancy Pop-Ups (Dynamic Zones #4)
Pop-up boxes in Tableau can be used for filters, zooms, or extra information – and more! Dynamic zone visibility makes these pop-ups even more fancy by allowing multiple objects to be shown and hidden with one click. That lets us add image layers for extra formatting and a slicker user experience.
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Moving BANs in Tableau (Dynamic Zones #3)
BANs (big numbers representing KPIs or other important info that pop out to users immediately) are a powerful tool in any dashboard creator’s arsenal. In today’s post, we’ll explore how you can use Dynamic Zone Visibility to make your BAN layout change as your dashboard changes.
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Multi-Chart Swapper in Tableau (Dynamic Zones #2)
Too many charts, too little dashboard space? In today’s post, the first in my series about use cases for Tableau’s Dynamic Zone Visibility, we’ll look at how to swap between multiple charts with a single parameter. (New to dynamic zones? Start here)