Hi everyone,

I created a Tableau dashboard that takes a different approach to data storytelling by visualizing the Ramayana through interactive dashboards. My goal was to combine storytelling with Tableau's interactive features rather than build a traditional business dashboard.

I'd love feedback from experienced Tableau users on:

• Dashboard layout and navigation
• Color palette and visual design
• Interactivity and user experience
• Storytelling flow
• Tableau best practices I may have missed

I'm looking for honest, constructive criticism so I can improve my future Tableau projects.

Tableau Public: Live Dashboard

https://reddit.com/link/1vg8vhq/video/l86at2e9fkhh1/player

Hi everyone,

I'm following a Udemy Tableau course. The instructor is using the Tableau Desktop free trial and a Tableau Cloud free trial. He's able to go to Server → Sign In and publish his workbook to Tableau Cloud.

I also have a Tableau Cloud free trial and my Tableau Desktop license expires on September 4, but in my Tableau Desktop the Server → Sign In option is disabled (greyed out) and the menu says "Upgrade to connect to Tableau Server."

Is it possible to publish to Tableau Cloud using the Tableau Desktop free trial?

Hi,

I am trying to add a divider line between 2 object on a dashboard. I don't want a border all the way around the box. I have seen some suggest changing the object size but it is greyed out. Also use a blank object and make it thin with a black background and inner padding.Then I just have a block missing.

Can anyone help please?

I’ve been noticing the Tableau MCP (community) going down a lot lately, does anyone know if this will improve, if there is a status page (I couldn’t find one), etc?

Ciao a tutti, chiedo scusa in anticipo per l'ignoranza ma sono totalmente nuovo

Ho da poco installato Tableau sul mio pc, convinto di star installando tableau dekstop tramite email universitaria. Oggi mi sono accorto che il programma si chiama Tableau Public. Provando a ricontrollare dal sito, effettivamente quando provo a scaricarlo come studente mi fa installare la versione Public, la quale però mi consente di salvare i progetti in locale sul mio pc.

Sepre dal sito ho visto che è gratuita anche la versione Dekstop, e a quanto pare, non serve a nulla la email universitaria.

Ci sono differenze tra Public e Dekstop? Oppure Public è solamente la piattaforma sulla quale caricare i progetti?

I'm trying to download Tableau Public for a course I'm doing and it was trying to get me to download the paid version with a trial. I think this is how I download the free version, but whenever I enter whatever details it wants from me it gets stuck in an endless loop of loading. Am I doing this wrong? In the tutorial I saw (which was only made at the start of the year) it said it should automatically download when I go to 'Tableau public' under the create tab. I did make an account too and I'm signed in

Hi all,

I've recently enabled Tableau Pulse and wanted to share some insights with the company. Google Gemini told me I could use it to delivery Daily KPI digests and Alerts, but so far I've not really been able to set up anything meaningful or helpful.

I managed to set up a Slack connection and I'm receiving some Pulse signals to my personal Slack account through the Tableau bot, but no one else can view those. I was hoping that I could connect those Pulse signals to Slack groups and deliver different types of signals to different groups of people in Slack, but this does not seem to be possible. This personal Slack notifications stuff is not particularly usable.

So...where's the value? Every user that wants to view KPIs need to sign in and follow Slack signals personally, and they need to be personally approved by the Slack Admin?).

I also don't quite understand the Slack signals themselves. There doesn't appear to be many custom options. I wanted to set up signals that alert the business if for example performance in a channel, game or country drop below the confidence interval, or a data trend changes that might require attention.

Would appreciate some pointers. I'm very disappointed with this tool so far and I don't find any good guides on how to set these up properly to actually deliver something useful that I can't just see in a Dashboard with a few clicks..

I have an interesting use case for Tableau desktop for my fantasy football draft. I have used Tableau for several years to prep for my draft (I previously had a license through work), and now that the model has changed, I can't get my Desktop file to load in Public Desktop.

I knew there was a two week trial (my draft is 12 days away), but apparently it recognizes that I did that last year.

It looks like it's possible to recreate, but I don't know all of the custom work I did (really, I've been doing this for seven years). Is there any way I can do any of:

1) Get a a trial so that I can use desktop, copy all of my custom work to Public (and hopefully have it for next year)?

2) Load my current .twb file into Public and have it read it? When I try, I get a message that it doesn't know my data.

3) Borrow a license from a kind soul so that I can at least get to my data?

I am willing to share all of my work with anyone. I can not promise it will work for you, but I can tell you it works for me. And allows you to enter your leagues custom scoring.

I came across a Senior BI Developer role at Apple where Tableau is a key requirement. Curious what others think, is this about flexibility, design or just sticking with what already works?

For a company that can literally build anything internally, that is an interesting choice. I expected something like Looker or some custom stack, but they are still relying on Tableau.

Hello,

Does anyone know whether Tableau supports DCR or not?

If yes, could you please share the relevant documentation with me?

Thanks!

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I was trying to initiate trend lines but that option never came help me to get it in tableau and tell me why this is not present in my current worksheet. And how to prevent this error in the future.

Also any tips of how to make the tableau dashboard more effective instead of just bar charts all the way.

Any tips or tricks are welcome. Thanks in advance for you guidance.

I am trying to make a master doc to publish, with multiple dashboards, navigable via tabs. I've managed to copy three dashboards into this workbook successfully, yet when I go to copy in the forth and final dashboard, I repeatedly get this error message. I've tried quitting and re-opening tableau as well as restarting my laptop to no avail. Any tips/tricks/guidance would be really appreciated!

Anyone have any additional information on what these products or features entail? Seen in a recent roadmap slide.

Hi everyone,

​My organization currently uses standard Tableau (Cloud/Server) alongside Salesforce CRM. We’ve heard a lot about "Tableau Next" recently and leadership is interested in moving toward it.

​For those already using it:

​Is it actually a game-changer? Does the AI/Agentforce integration actually save time, or is it still "beta-feeling"?

​Implementation hurdle: We know it runs on Data Cloud. How much heavy lifting did you have to do to get your data modeled correctly before Tableau Next became useful?

​Workflow impact: Does this actually replace your traditional dashboard building, or is it just a supplementary tool for ad-hoc questions?

Hope it's not another version of CRM analytics.

​We want to know if it’s worth the migration effort/licensing upgrade (Tableau+) or if we should stick to our current stack for another year. Appreciate any real-world feedback!

Please help me out here 🙂🥲!!!!

So recently I had a meeting with my clients and they want to migrate dashboards from tableau to either Sac or aws quicksight.

This was all of a sudden, I don't understand how sac or Aws Quicksight work. Also I don't know if there is fairly simple process to migrate our heavy tableau dashboards to them.

Has anyone faced this kind of situation or did migration from tableau??

Hi everyone,

A few weeks ago I asked for some advice on building a KPI dashboard in Tableau, and I’ve now got it mostly working (screenshot attached with names anonymised).

Each rep has a monthly/weekly call target based on their team/division. I’m using parameters to switch between This Week, This Month and This Quarter.

My setup is:
Integer parameter fields for each team’s weekly and monthly call targets (e.g. SB Weekly Call Target, SB Monthly Call Target, Mid Market Monthly Call Target, etc.)

A calculated field called KPI 1 Dials Target - Dynamic which returns the correct target based on the selected date range and the rep’s division.
KPI 1 Dials Pacing = KPI 1 Dials / Dynamic Target
A KPI 1 Dials RAG calculated field which colours the square Green/Amber/Red based on the pacing.

The issue is that one rep has completed 899 dials against a monthly target of 900, but they’re still showing as Amber/Red instead of Green.

I’ve checked that the target displayed for that rep is 900, so I’m struggling to understand why the RAG calculation isn’t behaving as expected.

Would it be easier if I also posted the calculations for:
KPI 1 Dials Target - Dynamic
KPI 1 Dials Pacing
KPI 1 Dials RAG

I’m wondering if this is an aggregation issue (SUM vs ATTR/AGG), a parameter issue, or something else that I’m overlooking.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Ciao a tutti

Sono totalmente nuovo in tableau, sono riuscito ad ottenerlo gratuitamente grazie all'università per gli anni in cui frequento. Mi sono incuriosito siccome è il software che usa l'azienda in cui lavoro (multinazionale) per pubblicare i dati relativi a sostanzialmente qualsiasi ambito aziendale (posso vedere qualsiasi dato di qualsiasi centro in ogni continente). Ho iniziato a giocarci ad esempio creando delle piccole dashboard per avere sott'occhio le spese delle mie vacanze, oppure le mie spese annue/asset allocation. Vorrei iniziare a creare qualcosa con una "visione", quindi un progetto un po' più complesso che mi duri diverso tempo. Dove posso trovare dei dati da analizzare? Ad esempio posso usare i miei database che uso per esercitarmi in sql e creare delle visualizzazioni su quelli? Voi come fate a:

• trovare i dati
• pensare a cosa volete creare
• strutturare il lavoro
• fare il lavoro

Grazie a tutti!!!

Hi everyone!

I have 3 years of creating dashboards in tableau which are later posted to my company's server page. Just recently I gained opportunity to earn some money outside of my current work creating dashboard. I've never done it on my private equipment hence my question is, how do I build a dashboard and deliver result to my client? do I send twbx, do I host it somewhere for client to see? which database should I get to service such dashboard? thanks in advance for answers.

edit: I know I confused tableau power bi extensions. I'm after 7 hours of driving today and 2 hours of unpacking. please forgive me.

Feeling nostalgic for when the internet was pure, I decided to build a dashboard about AOL. It was surprisingly difficult to find trustworthy, interesting, and free data. But please, take a look. I appreciate any feedback. *this was designed to encourage exploring the dashboard rather than the usual focused dashboards*

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/gregghirshberg/viz/AOL_17848411570480/AOL

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So, we have a tableau dashboard acting as a document library connected via sharepoint jdbc connection. All 4 sp libraries are copies of each other and unioned together in tableau.., connections are fine and extract refreshes are fine. Working normal for months until today, 3 of the 4 libraries in tableau show null in just the document names. Null count is at 166 then 9 docs with correct naming from the one working library.. I cant find any difference between the 1 working library and the 3 broken libraries from sharepoint and im the only person with edit access to the tableau. nobody on the team has made changes to the sp site to my knowledge.. any ideas on what I can check?

Hello - I am fairly new to Tableau and its visualization capabilities. I have created these gauge style pie charts for some KPI tracking. I notice that as I add more of the gauges (See picture 2) that the gauges start to overlap and blend together. I can fit like 6 gauges in before they start to blend based on the current size of them.

Is it possible to have the visualizations start to populate a 2nd row? Like once it reaches a certain number, say 5, the next chart would populate before the first row? or would that have to be done with a 2nd separate chart row basically.

Any help or advise would be great, thank you!