From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
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Collapsible containers to show or hide elements - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
Collapsible containers to show or hide elements
- [Instructor] Another way that we can show information as and when we need it is using collapsible containers. These are really useful way of hiding a container and only revealing its contents when we need it. So, this is really useful for content that we don't always need to see as part of our dashboard. So, examples of that would be filters, or parameters, or maybe even some help text on how to use the dashboard. However, even though we're going to hide these elements away, we should still make sure that all of those elements are actually needed and are useful for the dashboard. Just because you can't see them, don't use that as an excuse to add a load of junk that we don't actually need. Now, here's our example dashboard. We've got our four sheets, and we've got four filters on the right-hand side. Now, by default, Tableau always puts them in their own little container on the right-hand side whenever you add a sheet to a dashboard. So, in this case, I have an Order Date, I have a…
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