parameter actions

Introduction This challenge is similar to other challenges, except you’re trying to think differently. Previously this challenge would have been done with LODs or Table Calcs, whilst using Parameter Actions. But you don’t need those fancy Table Calcs or LODs to make the basis of this to work.Yes this does contain some hacky elements, mainly […]

Introduction I recently received a business request with the following requirements: The user wants to easily change the dimension that colors the charts on a dashboard. The list of dimensions might be added or removed in the future, so the solution needs to be simple and easy to maintain. This week’s challenge is inspired by

Introduction This week’s challenge again comes from trying to solve a problem in my day job, where I was exploring the possibility of parameters being multi-select like filters. We couldn’t use filters because we had different data sources, so I found a few forum and blog posts that make multi-select parameters a possibility, even if

Introduction So this week follows on from my previous challenge in week 13 here. Feel free to either recreate completely from scratch or use my/your own original solution to build on (my solution for week 13 is here and my solution guide is here). Having built a segmented bar chart, we are now going to

Introduction This week’s challenge is inspired by  something I’d seen at work, and I thought it would be quite fun to see if I could reproduce in Tableau and if so, share as a challenge 🙂 I could, so here it is… can you include & exclude options with a custom control? Click to open

Introduction We’re continuing retro month this week, and I decided to re-viz Andy’s Week 41 challenge from 2017. I chose this one because I really like the concept of being able to drill down from state into city on the same chart, but I wondered if things would be easier than the calculations required to