Building a sales dashboard in Tableau

Next to each new worksheet is a tab to create a new dashboard. Let's go ahead and select a new dashboard. But before we connect our worksheets to the dashboard, we want to make the dashboard look a little more user-friendly.

Beautifying the dashboard

On the left-hand side of the dashboard screen, there is a menu that can be used to set the canvas size to Automatic, which immediately resets the dashboard to fit any screen it is displayed on:

Beautifying the dashboard

After changing the canvas size, we can next add a title by checking Show dashboard title and assigning the AdventureWorks Sales Dashboard title. If we right-click on the title ...

Get Practical Business Intelligence now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.