May 2020
Beginner to intermediate
634 pages
15h 49m
English
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Chapter 4. Button Dashboard Object
In Tableau Desktop 2018.3, Tableau gave us the long-overdue Button dashboard object! Before this new object was released, adding buttons to a dashboard required a clever combination of worksheets and dashboard actions. I say this feature was long overdue because before it came out, this was my second-most-popular blog post, ever.
When a hack is that popular, it is time to make it a standard feature in the product. Fortunately for us, one source of Tableau’s innovation is truly its user base. Not only do the developers listen to the community, they even have an Ideas space on Tableau community forums where user ideas are collected, voted on, and updated as each successful idea’s status transitions from submittal to production.
This chapter shows you how to use one of Tableau’s newest dashboard objects to link to dashboards or worksheets within the same workbook.
How to Use the Button Dashboard Object in Tableau
As I mentioned in Chapter 1, I credit much of my success with Tableau to its free tool, Tableau Public. Tableau Public provides a source of inspiration, a platform for creating a data visualization portfolio, a sandbox for trying new ideas, and a treasure trove of tactics to reverse engineer that so that you can incorporate approaches into your own work.
For these reasons, several of the tutorials in Innovative Tableau are illustrated using the following Tableau Public workbook that I affectionately call Super Sample Superstore:
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