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Tableau Helpful Tip – Adding Subtotals & Totals to Data Sources
Tableau supports grand totals and subtotals for both relational and multidimensional data sources. This blog posting will describe how to enable this feature for both sources.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Highlighting Actions
Do you want to highlight data within a view in Tableau but you are unsure on how to set this up? This blog will explain the steps needed to be taken to enable this feature.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Packaging Workbooks
Do you save files not only within Tableau but also locally as Tableau extracts or excel documents that you would like collected into a single file for easier referencing? This blog posting will help you create packaged workbooks which as a single file makes it wasier to share the workbook with team members.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Web Mapping Service
Tableau, out of the box, provides online and offline mapping that can be connected to a web Map Service. This blog posting will describe how to connect a workbook to a WMS so that you can begin to perform further granular analysis on your data.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Relative Dates
Setting up date filters within Tableau allows you to only show time periods for which you are interested in seeing and analyzing. It also helps minimize the time spent having to update the workbook.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Combining Charts
Having combination charts within Tableau provides end users with the ability to view multiple mark types within the same sheet. This blog entry will describe how you can go about setting this up for more in-depth analysis.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Extract Aggregate Data
Are you looking to extract aggregate data but do not know how to do that within Tableau? This blog posting will help you achieve this within the interface.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Setting up Quick Filters
Have you ever wanted to show a workbook that you created with a co-worker with custom filters but didn’t know how to do that within Tableau? This blog posting will help you get that accomplished.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Creating Customized Groups
Having the out of the box grouppings provided by Tableau are nice but what if you want to create your own that don’t currently exist? This blog posting will help you go about setting these up within the interface.
Tableau Helpful Tip – Setting up Reference Bands
Are you looking for a way to easily add in reference lines or bands but do not know how to do this within Tableau? This blog posting will help you set this up.
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