When working with text data in Tableau, you’ll often need to clean or reshape strings to better fit your analysis or visual presentation.
Abbreviating text is a common challenge when designing dashboards, reports, or any interface where space is limited. Whether you’re working with long product names, category labels, or freeform text fields, overly long strings can clutter layout and make visualizations harder to read.
(more…)The default Show/Hide button in Tableau offers a quick way to toggle dashboard elements, but it comes with limitations—especially when dealing with larger components like full-screen visualizations or help panels that can obscure the toggle itself.
In this guide, I show a smarter approach using Dynamic Zone Visibility and Parameter Actions. By setting up separate “show” and “hide” buttons, you gain full control over what appears and when, all without compromising the user experience. This reasults in a cleaner layout and/or more intuitive interactions, this method provides a flexible, user-friendly alternative to Tableau’s built-in toggle.
(more…)Ever got a Tableau workbook with shapes you want to re-use, but weren’t able to because you didn’t have the original files?
You can extract the files from the workbook! Either by hand opening the source code, or using my small Python script.
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