From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
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Solution: Dashboard actions - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
Solution: Dashboard actions
(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Here's my solution for the Dashboard action exercise. First thing we need to do is add a highlight action. This is going to work where if we select Region, it'll highlight the relevant values in other sheets. So for this, we're just going to create a highlight action. First, we go up to the Dashboard menu item, click on Actions, and the Add Action is a Highlight. Now we need to decide which sheets this is going to work on. Well we have Regional Sales Timeline, we have the Regional Sales and Product, so it makes sense to use those two. The Employee Ratings also might be useful because we maybe want to see which employees work for which particular region. But the Sales by Employee, that doesn't necessarily make sense because there's no regional information within that, and it'd be hard to show that. So let's untick that one and we'll untick the Employee Ratings because we don't use that as the actioned trigger, we use the Select as the action. And whenever we…
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Add interaction with actions6m 36s
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Filter actions5m 3s
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Highlight actions5m 19s
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URL actions6m 10s
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Go to Sheet5m 8s
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Proportional brushing using set actions5m 4s
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Asymmetric drill down using set actions4m
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Highlight with parameter actions5m 29s
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Challenge: Dashboard actions35s
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Solution: Dashboard actions5m 45s
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