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Lesson 10 — Interactive Dashboards Cheat Sheet

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In one line: Every Tableau dashboard starts with a layout decision: Tiled or Floating. This choice affects how you arrange sheets and objects, and how your dashboard responds when resized.

Key Ideas

1Dashboard Layout — Tiled vs. Floating. Every Tableau dashboard starts with a layout decision: Tiled or Floating. This choice affects how you arrange sheets and objects, and how your dashboard responds when ...

2Dashboard Actions — The Five Types. Dashboard Actions connect sheets to each other. When a user interacts with one chart, actions trigger changes in other charts, filters, or external URLs. Actions are w...

3Parameters — User-Controlled Dynamic Values. A Parameter is a workbook variable that can hold a single value — a number, string, date, or Boolean — that users can change through a control (slider, dropdown, type-...

4Dynamic Tooltips & Viz in Tooltip. Standard tooltips show text — field values and calculations when you hover over a mark. But Tableau's Viz in Tooltip feature lets you embed a fully interactive mini-ch...

5Navigation Buttons & Sheet Swapping. Sheet Swapping (also called Sheet Show/Hide) lets you build multi-page dashboards where clicking a button shows one chart and hides another — all without leaving the d...