21 Tricks and Treats for Halloween

Hi really don't like Halloween and I really don't like video content, so I thought for today I'd do both. Here are 21 Tableau Tricks and Treats ranging from beginner to maybe Intermediate +
1. Right click on the marks, rows or columns shelf to create a calculated field that exists only in that worksheet 0m20s
2. Create information icons with explanation in the hover help guide the user by creating sheets with only an icon or an image, and then tool (show dashboard) 0m40s
3. Right click on a field and click default properties > number format and you can set to a currency or percentage so you don't have to change it every time you use it in a view. You can set default aggregations here as well. 1m16s
4. Right click and drag fields onto your view to pre-determine how they display (oops, didn't get on video, use your imagination)
5. Copy portions of a calculated field and drag them onto the view (great for troubleshooting) 1m50s
6. Hold Ctrl and drag a calculation from the pill to anywhere else to copy it - including into your field list to create a new calc field. 2m25s
7. If you're using measure values on colour, right click the measure values pill and select individual legends per measure. This lets you set a different legend for each measure. But it can get psychedelic so be careful. 2m48s
8. In a legend, double click a colour to go to the customization GUI 3m00s
9. To reduce the colour noise, you can use advanced customization to reduce the impact of outliers and stepped legends that reduce the number of total colours. 3m41s
10. In the toolbar, click analysis, view data. It will show you all of the data in the current worksheet. A quicker way than highlighting all the points and right clicking view data. 4m08s
11. If you need to export a measure name by measure values table, it will export as a cross tab and not a table (not like it looks in Tableau). To alleviate this, multi select the measures (ctrl + click) and drag them onto the rows. Then multi select again, right click and select dimension. Now you'll see that the export formats as a table. 4m23s
12. Drag the middle of a range filter to maintain the range but change the end points. 4m48s
13. Have dynamic colouring in text or tooltip by creating multiple if statement calculated fields, that return the desired value, one for "bad" and one for "good" each without an else statement. Set them each in the tool tip, colour the bad one Red and the good one Green. Only one will ever show up at a time. 5m25s
14. Right click on a date, format and scroll down to custom and pick the perfect date format. 6m32s
15. Use map layers to add street or satellite details to a map. 6m51s
16. To dynamically highlight only one dimension from a group, create a parameter that has all of the dimension options and then a calculated field of Parameter = Dimension. Set that field on colour, and click a bright colour for true and a bland colour for false. Order the legend so that true is on top.7m24s
17. You can set a password on a dashboard using a parameter and a calculated field the verifies the Parameter is set to a specific word. 8m34s
18. Use a Count Distinct of dimensions in a view to swap create a dynamic label that shows either a specific item or lexicon for multiple items, based on filters. IF the count distinct is equal to 1 THEN use Attrtibute on the dimension to show the specific dimension, ELSE show "All Products/Teams/Cities" 9m53s
19. On Startup hover across recent files to preview contents by worksheet 10m58s
20. Ctrl and click multiple worksheets and right click, select copy. You can and paste these worksheets within a workbook to duplicate, or from one workbook to another. It will even bring the datasource with it. 11m21s
21. The 21st trick is that there isn't a 21st trick.