Using Tableau’s database to build your own Tableau Server usage reports
Tableau provides some good tools to monitor what is happening on each Tableau site on the Tableau Server. Site admins and above have access to …
Tableau Candlestick Chart
This post shows how to create a candlestick chart in Tableau. It shows two different techniques to build a tableau candlestick chart. The first technique …
Order of operations in Tableau
Edit: Since the below post was first written, back in 2013, Tableau has significantly evolved. Tableau have a page dedicated to showing the order of …
Keep an aggregation static and unaffected by Filter in Tableau
A question I’ve seen asked many times in different guises is how to keep an aggregation static in Tableau. Effectively this is creating a constant …
Tableau Add extra dimensions as columns to a table
In Tableau the default number of discrete (blue pills) columns in a table is six. A setting can increase this to 16. In the Analysis …
Tableau Server Permissions Best Practice
Tableau Server permissions offer a lot of flexibility. Permissions can be assigned all the way down to the dashboard (view) level. However, in medium to …
Tableau Extracts are Slow to Refresh on the Server
Do you sometimes find Tableau data extracts are slow to refresh on the Tableau Server? Is your extract taking too long and not refreshing? Usually …
Custom SQL data connections in Tableau
Using custom SQL in a Tableau data connection can cause unexpected errors. There are many different flavours of SQL, and they don’t share the same …
Tableau Show or Remove ALL from filter
To remove the All option from a Tableau quick filter is possible by following these simple steps: 1. Click the small down arrow in the …
Date Hierarchies in Tableau
Dates in Tableau automatically fit into a standard date hierarchy. Year – Quarter – Month – Day is the default. All date fields naturally fit …