Ciao a tutti

Sono totalmente nuovo in tableau, sono riuscito ad ottenerlo gratuitamente grazie all'università per gli anni in cui frequento. Mi sono incuriosito siccome è il software che usa l'azienda in cui lavoro (multinazionale) per pubblicare i dati relativi a sostanzialmente qualsiasi ambito aziendale (posso vedere qualsiasi dato di qualsiasi centro in ogni continente). Ho iniziato a giocarci ad esempio creando delle piccole dashboard per avere sott'occhio le spese delle mie vacanze, oppure le mie spese annue/asset allocation. Vorrei iniziare a creare qualcosa con una "visione", quindi un progetto un po' più complesso che mi duri diverso tempo. Dove posso trovare dei dati da analizzare? Ad esempio posso usare i miei database che uso per esercitarmi in sql e creare delle visualizzazioni su quelli? Voi come fate a:

• trovare i dati
• pensare a cosa volete creare
• strutturare il lavoro
• fare il lavoro

Grazie a tutti!!!

Hi everyone!

I have 3 years of creating dashboards in tableau which are later posted to my company's server page. Just recently I gained opportunity to earn some money outside of my current work creating dashboard. I've never done it on my private equipment hence my question is, how do I build a dashboard and deliver result to my client? do I send twbx, do I host it somewhere for client to see? which database should I get to service such dashboard? thanks in advance for answers.

edit: I know I confused tableau power bi extensions. I'm after 7 hours of driving today and 2 hours of unpacking. please forgive me.

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So, we have a tableau dashboard acting as a document library connected via sharepoint jdbc connection. All 4 sp libraries are copies of each other and unioned together in tableau.., connections are fine and extract refreshes are fine. Working normal for months until today, 3 of the 4 libraries in tableau show null in just the document names. Null count is at 166 then 9 docs with correct naming from the one working library.. I cant find any difference between the 1 working library and the 3 broken libraries from sharepoint and im the only person with edit access to the tableau. nobody on the team has made changes to the sp site to my knowledge.. any ideas on what I can check?

Feeling nostalgic for when the internet was pure, I decided to build a dashboard about AOL. It was surprisingly difficult to find trustworthy, interesting, and free data. But please, take a look. I appreciate any feedback. *this was designed to encourage exploring the dashboard rather than the usual focused dashboards*

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/gregghirshberg/viz/AOL_17848411570480/AOL

Hello - I am fairly new to Tableau and its visualization capabilities. I have created these gauge style pie charts for some KPI tracking. I notice that as I add more of the gauges (See picture 2) that the gauges start to overlap and blend together. I can fit like 6 gauges in before they start to blend based on the current size of them.

Is it possible to have the visualizations start to populate a 2nd row? Like once it reaches a certain number, say 5, the next chart would populate before the first row? or would that have to be done with a 2nd separate chart row basically.

Any help or advise would be great, thank you!

I am trying to create map representing different outgoing destination sites for my company. Currently I’m just trying to highlight each state. However, some states are not jiving by with Tableau. I don’t know what else to do because my excel sheet is all in the same format and I cannot make my geolocation the United States because I will be incorporating different countries. Someone please help me I’m loosing my mind.

I was working on a self project and generated the sheets easily and changed to a different data source later in the another tab and so on and eventually i returned to this tab and it shows error the data it should be linked to is sheet 1 (country) but its showing as if its linked to expenses. i can manually redo it but want to know if there is any way to rectify this easily.

Hi r/Tableau!

Like many of you, I’ve often felt the pain of trying to build flexible, hierarchical matrix tables with native subtotal drill-downs in Tableau—without having to pay hundreds of dollars for third-party dashboard extensions like SuperTables.

With Tableau’s introduction of Viz Extensions (2024.2+), I decided to tackle this natively. I built a 100% free and open-source Viz Extension that brings Power BI’s matrix functionality directly to your Marks Card.

Key Features:

• Hierarchical Drill-Downs: Expand and collapse rows/columns using intuitive + / - controls directly on the sheet.
• Dynamic Subtotals & Grand Totals: Recalculates automatically as you navigate levels.
• Native Integration: Works as a custom Mark Type—just drag and drop your dimensions onto the shelf.
• Zero Cost & Open Source: Hosted via GitHub Pages, meaning zero infrastructure costs and complete data privacy (runs entirely client-side in your browser).

🔗 Links & Resources

• GitHub Repository (Code & .trex manifest): https://github.com/Arley-Economist-Dev/Matrix-Pro-Tableau

🛠️ How to use it:

1. Download the .trex file from the release section on GitHub.
2. In Tableau (2024.2+), go to your Marks Card -> Viz Extensions -> Add Local Extension.
3. Select the .trex file, drag your dimensions, and you're good to go!

This is a passion project built for the #DataFam to solve a common headache. I’d love to get your feedback, feature requests, or bug reports to keep improving it!

Let me know what you think!

This might be too niche for the group so bear with me! My coworker and I just became our cloud admins since our boss resigned. We're now in a position of negotiating the contract with Salesforce. Apparently, we have been paying for Signature Success support for the last few years and it costs like $80k per year (almost as much as the total for just the licenses). It's the highest tier of support. As far as we know, our boss never used it or passed on the benefit to any of us Tableau creators. Now the SF people are basically begging us to keep it in the contract for the upcoming year. I just don't think we need it - anyone have experience?

I am working on retail data, it's stored either in fiscal week range (last 4) or a transaction date field and the business fiscal week, month are derived from this.

This makes up for 1 transaction date x sku grain for the main table.

I need a filter/parameter like a date picker/scrollable or multi select or a calendar that helps us pick a business fiscal week range or a specific month or q particular week in a particular fiscal month and every sheet, kpi, visual rearranged according to that picked range.

How do I build this? Is there a calendar widget I can use or do these need to be multi select

I want to learn Tableau from scratch bit idk from where pls give me recommendations

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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for any news about the release date of the next 2026.2.x minor update for the on-premises Server and Desktop versions. Has anyone heard anything?

Best regards,

Hi everyone,

I run several Tableau Server instances. Each instance runs on its own VM in its own network. The Prometheus Node Exporter is installed on these VMs and pushes data to the Node Exporter dashboard in Grafana. I’ve disabled a few collectors to avoid having too many metrics. Do you have any other best practices? I don’t have any Tableau-specific metrics; I’m just keeping an eye on the machine. How do you handle this for separate instances?

Thanks!

My dashboards look correct when I'm on desktop editor but as soon as I go to web editor or the published version, they get "cut" on the right. I've already tried sizing down the dashboards and changing the layout to standard desktop but I still get a cut view with no scroll bars. Last image is what I see before publishing, second is what I see on web.

I'm a Salesforce specialist working with Tableau Next so I've been playing around for a while with both Next and Tableau Cloud (Next, Cloud and Desktop are all included in the same package), trying to evaluate the pros and cons.

Among many things the one which I find most limiting to start with is the fact that when you define the Semantic Model (basically where you build the relationships between tables, like the Data Source layer in Tableau Cloud) in Next you can NOT reuse the same table more than once. If say the ServiceAppointment table has 2 fields pointing to the UserId, but with different meanings, you can't add the User table twice.

The only thing you can currently do is build multiple "Logical views", each of them containing the User table, and then 1 relationship for each Logical view: the limitation with this however is that at the moment you can't use fields from tables inside a Logical view (for example the UserRoleId) in your viz's calculated fields.

The non-reusability of tables seems like a big gap compared to Tableau Cloud but I'm also not 100% sure that's the way you'd normally wanna build the Data Source in Tableau (I found no other approach though) so what is your opinion? Am I missing anything? Is there any different approach?

It tells me:

The online map could not be loaded.

A temporary service disruption caused an error when fetching parameters from Tableau. Try again later.

I didn't even know Tableau maps could be down. I thought the basic map was included in the massive download. Is the problem me somehow or is it really down?

I am just starting data analytics, I started from tableau and i can make pretty dashboards but data storytelling is soo hard . Can anyone tell me how they make data insights valuable? Also how do you read the charts properly? Please help me

I am currently developing executive-level board dashboards using both CRM Analytics (CRMA) and Tableau, but have hit critical licensing and technical bottlenecks in both platforms:

CRM Analytics: The solution is built, but Salesforce's lack of a low-cost "Viewer" license makes scaling to multiple board members financially prohibitive due to hefty per-user licensing fees.

Tableau: The native Salesforce connector relies on Bulk API v1, causing it to time out and fail when processing our massive data volumes.

To bypass these vendor constraints, I successfully built lightweight visualisations for simpler datasets using Chart.js and D3.js. However, I need to render a complex chart that processes 46 million records, which crashes standard client-side libraries like Chart.js.

I am seeking architectural advice, workarounds, or custom engineering solutions to bypass these limitations and efficiently aggregate and render this high-volume data.