Questions tagged [tableau-desktop]
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5 rows above and below from filtered row in Tableu
I have a results table with 100 players and their place respectively. I would like to create a filter that when in the filter user selects player, who finished in 50th place, it would show only players who finished 5 places above and 5 player below…

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Unable to aggregate on department level when I select an employee from filter
I am working on a Tableau dashboard in which I want to show an employee's salary in one sheet and the average salary of that employee's department in another sheet in the same dashboard. So it will look like below
Employee Salary Department…

Jessica Yoskovic
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Tableau Filtering Calculated Field
I have some data that has the variables Sex and NumHire and I am trying to create a caluclated field in tableau, but my experience is next to none. The goal is for the caluclated field to be the diffence in male and female combined NumHire. That is,…

Jjohn
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Count of Open and Closed date (Two dates in Data set) are showing wrong when applying filter for specific year or month (Tableau)
Raw data before visualization
Visualization look like this
I am facing one problem in when building a Visualization of IT- tickets which has open and closed date
column I have to count each month open & closed tickets everything looks fine until…

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How do I remove this tooltip in header?
This special header tooltip appears when I click on the row header. The sum is not a useful aggregation here. How can I edit it or turn it off? Regular tooltips for this worksheet are turned off.
My last resort will be to hover a blank box over the…

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How to connect and run Google Big Query to Tableau for my GA4 data?
I have connected Google Big Query to Tableau for my GA4 data. However, the data is split across several tables, each corresponding to a single day. How can I consolidate all these tables into a single, comprehensive table?

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Tableau Function - Dates (Day)
I am looking for a tableau formula that would help me create a field that assigns what day number it is in the year. If I use format options the day number restarts every month in the year... I have also tried to create my own formula however it is…

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Merging Percentage Lines with The Bars in Tableau Desktop
I have a graph that shows the ratio (count) of payable vs. processed words among the total words on stacked bars. I would also like to display the same ratio in percentages in lines overlapping the bars.
At the moment I have them in two separate…

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Area map showing the regions where a selected product is the most-popular
I have a set of products with the sales of each product by region. I want to draw a map where the map is filtered for the areas for which the selected product is the most popular option.
I have a data set with two dimensions and one measure. The…

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Tableau Prep: How can I refer to a parameter in the Custom SQL query?
Using Tableau Prep Builder version 2021.4.4 I connected to Postgresql database (version 12) and created a Custom Query as the only input in the Flow.
Then I created a parameter (my_date).
In the custom query I have:
select my_field
from…

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I would like to display the whole graph as well as the latest highest and lowest points on the graph. How to do that in tableau?
For example: In sample superstore there are many days where lowest sales are 4. So I want to display only the point where there was a latest low of 4 and not all the 4's. If one value is repeated more than once then I want to display that value only…

Arpit Choudhary
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Trying to get Tableau parameter to recognize filters applied
I have a dashboard with two worksheets. One of the worksheets is a bar chart with just one dimension, Model Name. I've added a Top N parameter to it, set to display only the Top N highest priced items.
The other worksheet is a bar chart at a…

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How to plot histogram for group-by data in Tableau?
I'm new to Tableau. May I have a question to plot histogram?
My Tableau Data Source is:
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| StudentID (str)| Subject (str) | Grade (int) |
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| 1 …

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How can I get totals for specific columns in table in a tableau
I have around 7 columns. I am using Totals from Analysis in the Dashboard for the table.
When I tried Totals, I am getting totals for each column. But I want 2, 3,5 column totals only.
Please help me.

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How to create/add multiple tittles and border lines to one text table in Tableau Desktop
I have a text table in Tableau Desktop that looks like this.
I want to partition it to add multiple tittles with border lines to separate into three parts within one tableau sheet, expecting result to look like this.
Any ideas on how to achieve…

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