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For software development questions related to the use of developer API for Tableau Software, a family of interactive data visualization products

Tableau Software is a family of interactive data visualization products focused on business intelligence. There is also a developer API for creating data extract files, and a developer API for JavaScript interaction, which provides more custom ways to interact with Tableau reports.

Main Features:

  • Connect to a large variety of data sources, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Teradata, BigQuery, Redshift, Google Analytics and Salesforce.
  • Has option to extract data to a Tableau format (tde), which is a columnar database, with good compression and high performance.
  • Drag and drop environment, little or no SQL knowledge necessary to perform most of the tasks.
  • Large set of reports available, and options to create very interactive dashboards, such as custom parameters, using charts as filter for other charts, interactive filters
  • Tableau Server allows users to have access to reports via web browser.
  • Tableau Public provides free hosting of publicly-accessible reports with limited features.

When posting questions, Tableau Public is an invaluable resource. Problematic workbooks (or example workbooks demonstrating the issues in question) can be published here to help answerers find the problem more quickly and give a more thorough solution.

In addition to Stack Overflow, a good place to get solutions to Tableau questions is on the vendor's forum.

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Showing Complete Set of Data with Filter and parameter - Tableau 10

I have a set of data below. | AdviserName | PolicyNumber | Product | Status | Duration | |-------------|--------------|---------|--------|----------| | Andy | LIF123 | ANZ | New | 2 | | Andy | X224 | AXA …
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Return first Not NULL value in a partition in a Tableau View

In the below dataset I need to return the first not null value for each partition. Can somebody please help. Dataset: Item FirstSold Name 1 NULL Jack 1 13 Rob 1 2 Simon 2 NULL Mat 2 …
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Tableau Desktop : Use of COUNTD

my data is presented as follow. Col1 Col2 A x A x A y B x C z I simply want to represent Column 1 on a graph in the X axis with the number of unique references to of the data in Column 2 as Y axis. Basically my graph would be like A (2) ;…
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Distinct sum of values in Tableau

I have a data with columns called Brand, Market and Target. The Brand having members like A, B, C & D repeats across 2 kinds of Market - OPL and CPL. So the Target for each of Brand and Market also repeats in column Target, as in below image: All I…
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Create a new column by picking non-null values from 3 different columns in Tableau

I have outer-joined 3 data sources - Sales, Cost, Price details to make sure I don't miss any rows from either of data sources. A sample of my case looks as below: As per above image, after outer joining I find Cost and Price info for Brand E but…
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Popup for Tableau

Is there a way to create a popup to change a parameter? We are dealing very limited space as we are developing a mobile app. It is a KPI tracker with the ability to see what a users final score will be if they adjust certain areas of the…
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tableau adjust marks size using number

In Marks, click Size and there pops a slider where I can adjust the size of a shape. But how to accurately control the size, is there some property with numbers to accurately control it? I have two sheets to show something similar and I want to…
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Export a specific sheet from Tableau using tabcmd

I am using tabcmd to export some sheets to csv in tabcmd. The issue i am having is my view contains 3 sheets and i can only get one. I have 3 sheets 1)A 2)B 3)C I want to export the data for sheet C Here is the command I use tabcmd export…
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Creating a raised note on tableau data label

I am trying to create note markers next to my labels in tableau. The end user would like the suffix note numbers 1, 2, 3 be raised just like they are in text books. Label a = Label a1 with the one be Superscript. Any suggestions would be helpful.
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How to force tableau show selected header for discrete columns

I would like to use Tableau to create a bar plot for score of students. The column variable is student name which contains more than 100 names. Therefore when Tableau generate the plot, it will only show limited names as headers. Currently Tableau…
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Tableau: stacked side-by-side bars with two different dimensions splitting the columns

I am trying to create a stacked side-by-side bar chart over time with 2 measures: Total Calls (Split by type of a call) Requests (Split by type of a request) I have reached a point where I can get this view: I am struggling with getting 'Calls'…
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In Tableau, how do I use two parts of a pivotted column for x and y values on a graph?

I'm trying to plot some data (standard curves for analytical chemistry) where the x axis is the mass of a compound I added to a solution, and the y axis is the signal recorded from an instrument (peak height on a mass spectrometer). I'd like Tableau…
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Level of Detail on the primary data sources in tableau

I have one excel that contains the demand for each part by city: e.g: the demand for part a for New york is 100 and 1+7=8 for Atlanta I have another excel containing the inventory level for two warehouses: rural and urban: e.g: Warehouse "Rural"…
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Tableau isNull then 0 calculated field

I have my tableau workbook and I'm currently counting by a field called ID - COUNT([Id]) - while this is great, on days with no activity my dashboard doesn't show ANYTHING and I want it to show zero if there was no activity - so I do I change this…
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Grouping customers as "others" if sum of sales is below a value

I want to build a logic in tableau for grouping customers. Basically I want to see a bar graph comparison of customers sales with below logic: Customers whose respective sum of sales is less than 100,000 are grouped as "Others" and shown as one…
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