Learning AI Tools in Tableau

Chapter 3. Advanced Tableau Pulse Features

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Now that you know how to enable Tableau Pulse and construct basic metrics, it’s time to dig into the more advanced features that are available. These advanced features allow you, the metric author, to create more robust metrics using definition filters, make adjustments to the time dimension, and construct an advanced metric definition with calculated fields or custom filtering. You’ll also learn how permissions for metrics work and how to manage them.

Definition Filters

In the last Chapter, I briefly mentioned what a definition filter is. A definition filter is a preset form of filtering the data that flows into a metric definition that limits the data. That means for each subsequent metric created from a metric definition, the scope and inclusion of data that is used for the metrics are always filtered in the same way. This behavior is distinctly different from the adjustable metric ...