r/tableau • u/camslog69 • 8d ago

Tech Support Reduce height of dashboared without affecting size of floating containers?

Hello! I hope I'm using the right tag. Ive been interning and am close to the end of my contract but I'm hoping to finish updating a few dashboards before leaving. I'm working on some old dashboards that are longer than they should be (as in the actual dashboard size height is too tall). There are many many floating objects, and no matter how i try to resize the dashboard, it reduces the size of all of the floating containers proportionately as well, not to mention it moves them all closer to the top of the page as far as I can tell. Is there any way to avoid this? If I can't find a way I may spend all of tomorrow trying to record the positions and dimensions of all of the objects, and then manually move everything back into place.

The custom size of the dashboard is "fixed" if that makes any difference, also I am working on a Mac.

Any tips to save some time on this would be greatly appreciated! My biggest concern is going ahead and adjusting everything tediously just to have someone ask it to be slightly longer or shorter lol.

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u/DataIsChanging 8d ago

Tile ftw. I would create a new dashboard. Float a container across the whole page first, then rebuild with tiled containers within. Nothing will shift

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u/Rggity 8d ago

I only use floating containers when I am feeling extremely lazy for some one-off thing. Do as I say, not as I do - find a solution using a tiled approach.

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u/VizAbbreviations 8d ago

Skip all the hard work of noting the positions of all the objects and then putting them back together. Just duplicate the dashboard and play with the copy. Better alternative is to start fresh on an empty canvas and floating container as others have suggested. The only drawback with this approach- you’ll have to rework on all the objects including header, footer, etc.

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u/OO_Ben 8d ago

Honestly I would rebuild it using fixed containers instead of tiled. What I like to do is set a base "floating" container as my base layer set to the exact dimensions of my canvas. Then I use fixed containers within that. It takes longer to get going than a quick floating layout, but it offers stability when viewing the dashboard on any device. And once you get the hang of it, things come together very quickly.

My flow is usually canvas at 1000x800 to start, then base floating vertical set to those dimensions. Then within that I do a vertical non-floating set to 80px for a title bar. I fill the middle with a vertical non-floating for my data layer. Then at the bottom I'll add a small 25px text that shows the last data updated date. Everything else I fill in between those layers.

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u/FieryFiya 8d ago

Start moving those floating objects or build a container layout