From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
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Apply filters across sheets - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
Apply filters across sheets
- [Narrator] The way that filters work with dashboards are slightly different than how they work in individual sheets. There's a couple of key things we need to be aware of when we're using them. Now filters reduce the amount of data displayed. It's very rare that you're going to want to look at the entirety of your data set. So you're always, generally going to look at a subset, and filters are great for doing this. Now, if you have a filter displayed in a view, when you add that view to the dashboard, the filter also gets displayed because Tableau figures well, you had it open in the view, and in the separate sheet so chances are you'll want it in the dashboard. However, we can also add filters to the dashboard, if Tableau doesn't bring it across automatically because it's not present in the sheet. But they must belong to the sheet, even if they're not part of the current view. So when it comes to filters, there's two things to consider. Firstly, how do we make filters apply to some…
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