On a tableau dashboard there are 2 filters and a bar graph.
The filters are 1. to select top or bottom customers
2. how many ex:5,10,15 etc
when the user selects top and 5 in the respective filters then top5 customers have to show in the bar graph.
if the user selects bottom ,10 in the respective filters then bottom 10 customers have to shown in the graph.
how to achieve this when the data contains only customers details and their billing amount ?
Instead of filter, you can go with the Parameter for getting the result. I have done the top and bottom multiple times in many of the tableau visualizations and its so easy.
Below are the steps to achieve your requirement.
Create a parameter that will allow you to select top and bottom
Create another parameter that will allow you to select the desired numbers like 5, 10, 15 etc.
Here i have created a parameter that will have values from 10 to 50 in a step size of 10.
Create a calculated field that will subset data based on the parameters chosen
In the above screenshot, I am using the top site parameter and creating a conditional statement that will show the states based on the value chosen in the site parameter and the value for that state.
Put the calculated field in the filter and select show and click ok in the filter box.
Now the view will show the top count based on the value selected in the parameter.
Please note the calculation is for top N and for bottom N you need to change the calculation.
Hope this will help you. I can provide you a workbook if you need.
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Is there a way to display different sheets by clicking/selecting values/options from one particular filter?
for example, if I have this filter:
and I need to display a sheet named Departments when I select Commercial from the filter shown in the PtrScn.
However, When I click/select any other options like HR, Information ...etc, I want it to display the associated sheet with the filter "Filter by Sector"
Any hints would be highly appreciated!
NOTE: I use tableau 2019.1 and it does not show "Change Parameter" that might be needed to approach this as I noticed when I have been researching for two days now!
You should use a container (say vertical) where you wanna put your N worksheets one on top of the other one without changing vertical spacing: just let Tableau do its stuff!
Be sure to remove the worksheet titles.
Once you're done, you need to create a parameter in order to handle all the N possible choices, and according to that you need to create N Calculated fields with a condition like this one:
if [Param] = 'Profit' then 'ok' else 'ko' end
Each calculated field will be used as a condition (select just ok values) in your filter selection.
Since the parameter can accept just one value a time, you will have just one of your N worksheet displaying data.
And this is the trick based on the vertical conatiner: if you hide worksheet titles, you will see "something" just for the selected worksheet and Tableau automatically will handle all the vertical space in the container.
The result will look like the following:
Adding to Fabio's great answer, these resources about collapsing containers may be useful:
Sheet swapping using collapsing containers
Automatically resize items in a Tableau container (or make disappear in your case)
Im trying to perform a KPI on Tableau based on the rank of certain variables such as sales and profit as the excel example below
KPI = If the country position (using rank formula on Tableau) is on TOP 3 = GREEN; TOP 5 = YELOW; OTHER = RED. As the second table shows
On Tableau, I would have to create 2 calculated field KPI_SALES & KPI_PROFIT following the logic above
The ideia is to use the forms with the 2 calculated fields created above, however, the problem it that Tableau only allows to use one variable on forms which is my problem, i will have to use 2 variables on this example
There is any other way to accomplish it?
Yes, you can do this. Go to each sheet and click on the Label Card in the Marks Shelf. Then click the box that says "Allow labels to overlap other marks". See picture.
I have solved the problem by creating fake columns such as sum(0)
so each card would allowed by the chose different variables to put on marks as the picture below shows
I am creating a capacity dashboard that has a granular aspect with multiple rows on the axis. The purpose is so that the user can see the specific view as the fields get more specific, such as Region to Market to Territory. My main problem is if there is a way for a user on Tableau Server to be able to edit the axis (maybe through a filter) so they could basically scale back the granularity a little bit. I know that in Tableau Desktop, you can just remove the dimensions, but I am hoping there is away to do that as a user in Server. Here are some pictures of my
workbook for examples:
You can see that when Territory is removed, it get less specific and shows all of Canada as a whole, grouped together. I am hoping there is a filter view or some way a user could change this dynamically. I have created a parameter with strings that matches the row dimensions that maybe when selected, will show up to that row, but I am not sure how to link that into the dashboard. Here is a picture of that:
Thank you for any help!
The best way to do this is to create a Parameter with your three Axis choices. It should look like this:
Next, create a calculated field that only references the Parameter like this:
Next, you will create three separate sheets. On each one, add the Axis Filter to the Filters Shelf. One each separate page, select one of the three values in your Parameter. (Tip - if the value doesn't show up you can either change the parameter or type it in manually under "Custom value list".)
What this does is create a filter whereby only ONE of the sheets will show up at any time. Meaning if you want to work on the Market sheet select the Market value in the Parameter.
Finally, to bring it all together, you will put these on a dashboard. Create a new Dashboard and add a Horizontal (or Vertical, it doesn't matter) Object (aka layout container) onto the dashboard. Put all three Sheets inside the layout container. You will see only one will be displayed but all three will have headers. On each sheet, click on the header and check "Hide Title" like this:
Finally, click on any downward triangle and show the parameter:
Now, by changing the parameter your user is selecting from three different sheets... effectively letting them change the Axis.
You can also view this documentation on the Tableau Help site.
I have a Tableau file whose source is from one Excel sheet as shown below:
And it's how it looks in Tableau:
I have a Tableau sheet to show me the top 3 customers in each section. For example, company F, H, J, B, A are in section XXX, I filter section XXX only, sort F, H, J, B, A, select the top 3 customers and hit "keep only". So I have a table of top 3 customers in XXX section. Please see the pics below:
My question is, every month I have an updated Excel sheet with same format and I feed it into Tableau, the sales change every month but I always want top 3 customers in each section. For example, top 3 customers this month in XXX section are F, H, J but next month it might be A,B,H. However since I use "keep only" to filter F, H, J, the top 3 customers can only be F, H, J unless I manually change the filter. Is there anyway I can program Tableau to pick up the top 3 automatically whenever I feed new data to this file? I know "filter top n by" can do it but it can only filter by one variable, like they can only filter by sales instead of sales AND sections. I want to use "by formula" in the pic below to do it but I am not sure how to write the formula.
Have you tried to use the "Top" instead of "Condition" tab? You could also try to use a rank.
Create a calculated field "Rank", put index() into it, make it discrete and put it between your segment and customer pillow. Untick "Show header" and use it as a filter on the filter shelf.
I would use the Quick Table Calculation Rank. To do this create a new worksheet as follows:
Drag Section onto Rows
Drag Customer onto Rows
Drag Sales onto text mark
Drag sales onto detail
Right click the sales that you have dragged onto detail. Select Quick table calc and then rank.
Change this table calc from the detail mark onto the rank mark.
Now you can see what it is doing my default. You can see that is will be calculating the rank across all sections. As you mentioned you want the rank per section you just need to adjust the way the quick table calc is working. To do this right click on the measure and select edit table calc. Under Compute using you can change the way the calc is working. Select a couple of different ones to see what is happening. As you have structured the workbook to have Section and then Customer on the Rows shelf you should be able to use pane across then down. This means that it will calculate the rank per pane which in this case is per Section and will calculate down across Customer.
8) You can now drag this measure onto the filters pane and select a range of 1-3 this will filter the view to only show the top 3.
This method will work dynamically even when the data is updated :)
I'm using Tableau Desktop 9.0 on OSX. I have data (loaded from a local CSV file) that looks like this:
code,org,items
0212000AA,142,10
0212000AA,143,15
0313000AA,142,90
0314000AA,143,85
I want a chart that shows the number of items beginning with 0212 as a percentage of all items, for each organisation. (I mean as a percentage of the organisation's items - for example, in the above, I would like to show 0.1 (10/(10+90)) for organisation 142.)
I have been able to get part way there, by adding org to Columns, and SUM(items) to Rows. Then by adding a Wildcard filter on code, for starts with 0212.
This shows me the number of items starting with 0212, by organisation.
But what I don't know how to do is show this divided by the value of all items for the organisation.
Is this possible in Tableau, or do I need to pre-calculate it before loading my data source?
One way is to define a calculated field called matches_code_prefix as:
left(code, 4) = "0212"
You can also define a parameter called, say, code_prefix to avoid hard coding the prefix string:
left(code, 4) = code_prefix
And then show the parameter control for code_prefix to allow the user to interact with it.
If you use this new field as a dimension to separate SUM(items) according to those that match the prefix and those that don't, you can then use a quick table calculation to get the percent of total.
For example, you can place org on the Rows shelf and matches_code_prefix on the Columns shelf, and SUM(items) on the Text shelf to make a table. Then under the analysis menu, turn on grand totals for both rows and columns to see the behavior. Next, right click on SUM(items) and choose Quick Table Calc->Percent of Total. Tableau will display the percents of total in the table.
If you want the percent of total defined differently than the default, then right click on the measure again and set Compute Using to a different value such as matches_code_prefix in your case. It's usually better to set compute using to a specific field.
If you only want to display the value for the matching case, select the column header you don't want to see and choose hide. You can also turn off the grand totals from the analysis menu when you are done.
When you are confident in the values in your table, you can turn it into a bar chart for example by moving matches_code_prefix to the detail shelf and the measure to the Columns shelf.
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The above is the drag and drop approach. If you prefer to hard code everything in a single calculated field that is calculated on the database side, you could instead define a calculation such as:
zn(sum(if matches_code_prefix then items end)) / sum(items)
Then set the default number format for that field to display as a percentage