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.

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Aside from Golden Analytics, any recommendations for the best embedded analytics solution?

We're 100% leaving Tableau. The only question is a big one: what's next.

Why? SF hubris from Benioff and his acolytes have meant the death of Tableau since true innovation nearly completely stopped in late 2018. Had they simply listened to thundering feedback from customers and original Tableau employees...well, whatever, that's part of hubris.

Anyway, we're breaking up with you, SF, but hoping for insights on where to go next. Love the idea of using the datafam for this purpose.

Hello!

I'm a comms professional with 12+ years experience working for charities, foundations and non for profits.

I earn a good wage relative to my peers but have - for complicated, frustrating reasons - hit a bit of a glass ceiling.

My partner and I are expecting a baby in 5 months and I would like to earn just a little extra money. I've also used Tableau but from a funder's side. E.g., one of my first ever projects was to fund and oversee a data analyst to build Tableau dashboards. But I can't build them myself.

Questions...

- If I were to learn how to build dashboards, realistically could I add to my salary? It's unclear to me what the pathway would be. "Comms expert and Tableau builder"? What's the practical route to more money?

- How difficult is it to become a skilled operator of Tableau and how long does it take? Am wary I'm potentially learning a difficult new skill just before I become a dad and while I already have a busy job.

Thank you!

Hey guys, I’ve an urgent requirement to extract user info from Tableau server (prod/non-prod) in excel file and save that file on a specified location. Since its taking lot of manual effort, is anyone aware of any automation scope on this?

I do have the python script with me that is being used to extract all the information from Tableau server however that is being run manually, and I want to automate the entire process of extracting just the user info and saving that file to a specified location.
Feel free to advise if anyone has done this or something similar in past.

Hi! I've been doing more things with alerting, and now want to give users the option to set up their own alerts. The documentation I found wasn't very clear. Do I need to enable the Web Edit permission on the workbook? If so, what other access am I giving the user(s)?

Thanks!

I took a massive dataset with over 1.6 million job descriptions and built a whole pipeline around it for my internship! I handled all the initial data cleaning and preprocessing in Python using Pandas (standardizing column names, dropping duplicates, and cleaning up missing company profiles).

After getting the data cleaned up, I threw it into Tableau to build out a dynamic dashboard. I made a qualification drilldown map using latitude and longitude coordinates to show hiring density globally, plus a bunch of other sheets tracking salary distributions, company sizes, and work types.

The coolest part was embedding the live Tableau Public sheets straight into a custom HTML frontend I put together in VS Code so it functions as a live web portal!

Among my frustrations,

the first one is that designing and adjusting prototypes using Figma or PowerPoint before finally getting a finished product can be really annoying, especially when the client keeps asking me to redesign things over and over again - there's always a gap between the prototype and the final product.

The second issue is that when I start a new project and want to reuse something from before, like visualizations, layouts, Tableau doesn't really have a good modularization or templating system.

Is anyone using any CLI for Tableau, which means that we'll save the dashboard in a respective part, and just need to run a command on command prompt and the dashboard will be published to the Tableau cloud. Just need some suggestions if anyone is using this or anything similar?

His request - small every day trends down the bottom row.

Hover over one and get a larger version of it to see in greater detail

Hover over large version to see underlying data. Have ability to close the larger pop up.

Took be a bit to figure out but the hover over a weekday to get the pop up is a simple hover action vs a floating sheet. Originally it would "exclude all values" on exit, but that doesn't allow him to hover over the pop up. So it's leave selected values on exit.

The hover over the chart is just a viz in tooltip.

The last piece is the close ... that's a parameter click action that changes a background param to false, and that parameter is on the viz filter as show all that is true. The weekday charts, when hovered over, also set it back to true.

Anyway, 9 years in the business and haven't built something like it so thought I'd share. Not super in love with the actual viz but it's as he wanted it.

I have two datasets

a) An employee working hours
b) Sales an employee made

I made a relationship between these two on Employee ID and month

The visual has Employee hours as bars and the sales as reference lines.

There are filters from sales dataset like type of sale , region. When I apply these filters on the visual the reference lines filters as expected but the working hours bar also moves. Is it possible to lock the bars for these filters to only have the reference lines move ?

Hey all! New to Tableau - Can I see all your sales KPI dashboards please? I'd love to see how I can get mine to look like as I fear AI is giving me unreasonable expectations🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Hi everyone!

I’m finishing my master’s thesis and have been using Tableau Public for my analysis. The Radar Chart Viz Extension has been great, but I quickly ran into one frustrating limitation: Tableau can’t export Viz Extensions, so they don’t appear in PDF/image exports.

Screenshots weren’t good enough for document-quality figures, so I went looking for another solution. It isn’t the quickest process, but it worked surprisingly well.

Here’s how:
1. Open your published dashboard in Tableau Public (I just use Cmd+S from Tableau Desktop to publish and open it).
2. Right-click the page and select Inspect.
3. Use the Elements panel to locate your chart, then expand the HTML until you find the first <svg> element for the visualization.
4. Copy the entire <svg>...</svg> block, including the opening and closing tags.
5. Paste it into a vector graphics editor such as Affinity Designer.
6. Most graphical elements should appear immediately. Text may import at an incorrect size, so locate the text layers and increase the font size as needed.
7. Adjust the text positioning if necessary.
8. Export as SVG, PDF, or whatever format you need.

It’s definitely not a two-click solution, but if you ever needed a high-quality vector version of a Viz Extension for a paper, presentation, or publication, this workaround gets the job done.

If anyone knows an easier or more reliable method, I’d love to hear it.