Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition

Advanced addressing and partitioning

Let's take a look at a few other examples of what happens when you add additional dimensions. For example, if you check Quarter of Order Date, you'll see Tableau highlight a partition defined by Region and Year of Order Date, with Index incrementing by the addressing fields of Quarter of Order Date and then Department:

If you were to select Department and Year of Order Date as the addressing of Index, you'd see a single partition defined by Region and Quarter, like this:

You'll notice, in this view, that ...