Tableau 10 Complete Reference

Conventions Used

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, and user input are shown as follows: "We’ll create a calculated field named Floor to determine if an apartment is upstairs or downstairs."

A block of code is set as follows:

IF [Apartment] >= 1 AND [Apartment] <= 3
 THEN "Downstairs"
ELSEIF [Apartment] > 3 AND [Apartment] <= 6
 THEN "Upstairs"
ELSE "Unknown"
END

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes ...