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Ellen Oakes
30. Okt., 16:27
Creating a dashboard and hosting on separate agency website

My team has created a dashboard for a state agency that we are contracted with. They want to host it on their website, but still have us update and maintain the dashboard. I currently have it published to Tableau Public for the sake of sharing it with them internally/updating how it looks, but I'm confused about how we can put it on their website, given they have specific security permissions due to being a government entity.  

 

I've looked into Tableau Embedded Analytics as a way to have them host the dashboard and have a domain lock. Has anyone tried this before?  

 

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Joy root
28. Okt., 10:14
What Are Some Creative Ways to Present Personal Milestone Data in Tableau Public?

Hi everyone!

I'm interested in learning how to create engaging and visually appealing dashboards in Tableau Public. I think presenting everyday topics through charts and interactive visualizations can be a great way to practice data storytelling.

For example, it could be interesting to visualize trends related to special occasions, such as anniversaries, celebrations, or popular greeting themes. For anyone looking for ideas for anniversary-related content, these anniversary wishes provide an example of a topic that could inspire a simple content analysis project.

My question is: What chart types or dashboard features would you recommend for presenting this kind of data clearly? Would you use a timeline, bar chart, map, or interactive filters?

I'd appreciate any suggestions, examples, or tips from the Tableau Public community. Thanks! 

 

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  1. Kolin Floyd (Innovative Solutions Group)
    29. Okt., 18:45

    Hey Joy, a timeline sounds like a good fit here. I'd add some interactive tooltips with photos or short notes for each milestone. Could make it feel more like a story than just another dashboard.

Kayla Lam
21. Okt., 16:31
Tableau dashboard scroll position resets to end of page

Hi all! 

 

I am experiencing an issue with my Tableau dashboard scroll position. When I navigate to different tabs on my dashboard, the scroll position will reset to the bottom of the dashboard. It does not matter if I have scrolled to the bottom or not when on the current page.  

 

I am using Tableau Desktop to build, Tableau Public to publish, and am embedding the dashboard on a private company-wide site. The issue reproduces on Tableau Public and embedded on my private company site. I have published dashboards using these steps before, and have not run into this issue before.

 

I have managed to rule out the following solutions:

  • Dashboard device view (ex: preview, desktop, default)
  • Dashboard navigation buttons are at the very top of my page
  • Dashboard size is fixed
  • Issue reproduces on Tableau Public and embedded on my private company site
  • Each dashboard page is around the same dimensions
    • I have not experienced this issue with the scroll bar with dashboard pages of different dimensions previously, so I strongly believe this is not the issue
  • To test, I uploaded a dashboard that I built on Tableau Desktop, published to Tableau Public to publish, and embedded on a private company-wide site without this issue
    • My result was that I experienced the same issue with the scroll bar when this was not previously present :(

 

Does anyone have any advice for this issue? Thank you! 

 

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  1. Kayla Lam
    29. Okt., 12:44

    Hi @cartel1- khan, thank you for the response. Unfortunately, that does not solve my problem as my dashboard pages are all fixed size already.

Ryan Carrier (DHHS)
28. Okt., 15:31
Confirmed problem-Tableau Public navigation opening to bottom, new days ago

Hello, 

 

I can confirm this Public dashboard was working 100% correctly days ago. No structural updates at all. 

 

Now, when you click on a navigation button, the opening dashboards all will open to the bottom, not the top. This is 100% new and 100% consistent behavior as of a few days ago.  

 

Again, 100% confirm nothing was changed on my end and it was working days ago. 

 

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ryan.carrier/viz/UtahBehavioralHealthCrisisServiceandProgramDashboard_17760975311940/Crisishomepage

 

 

 

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Narender Thangavelu
2. Okt., 07:41
Requesting Feedback On Tableau Visualization: Hotel Booking Patterns Research

Hello everyone 

 

I am developing a data visualization project using Tableau with a hotel dataset that contains booking records for city and resort type of hotels, and related data such as guest details, pricing, and cancellations, to name a few. 

 

I have drafted 4 visualizations which will eventually be consolidated into a single dashboard. 

 

Please visit the visualization link here. 

 

The visualizations were developed to answer these research questions (in the same order):  

 

Q1. How do cancellation rates differ by market segment and deposit type for City Hotel and Resort Hotel? 

 

Q2: How do booking volume and average length of stay change throughout the year, and does the pattern differ by distribution channel and customer type? 

 

Q3: What geographic patterns can be identified in cancellation rates across guests’ countries of origin, and what booking characteristics are associated with these patterns? 

 

Q4: What booking profiles can be identified based on lead time and waiting-list duration, and how do they differ by room assignment, customer type, repeat-guest status, and number of special requests?  

 

For each research question (visualization), may I request your feedback on (one or more of) based on these questions?: 

 

A. Is the chart type appropriate? If not, could you please recommend a more appropriate one along with what measures to use? 

 

B. Do any of the colors/color scheme need to be changed? 

 

C. Do you recommend mark labels? If so, for all, or for high/low only? 

 

D. Hovering over the visualization shows more details but does it look like cognitive overload? Would you recommend splitting the visualization into two or more instead? 

 

E. Do you have (any) other feedback or best practice using data visualization principles to improve this? 

 

Thank you very much in advance! 

 

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  1. Sadat Mohammed Khan (Vizmask)
    22. Okt., 05:23

    Hi Narender, had a look at all four. Mostly small things, and the chart types are generally fine.  

     

    Viz 1. Bars are right for comparing rates. Some of the 100% bars (Undefined under No Deposit, and several of the Refundable ones) are probably very few bookings, but they look as important as Online TA. Add the booking count to the tooltip or label (n=12 style), or filter out segments under a minimum. Also City Hotel and Resort Hotel are sorted differently, so it's hard to compare the same segment across the two. Use one fixed order.  

     

    Viz 2. Careful with seasonality here. This dataset covers arrivals from July 2015 to August 2017, so July and August appear three times and every other month only twice. Adding up all years makes the summer peak bigger than it really is. Use one full year (2016) or show average bookings per month per year. The orange bars are labelled "Count of Is Canceled" in the legend, which reads like cancellations, so rename that to Bookings. And for the channel / customer type part of your question, filters only show one at a time. Small multiples, one small chart per channel, would answer "does the pattern differ" much better.  

     

    Viz 3. The title is the same as viz 1, I think it should say country. A diverging palette suggests there is a meaningful middle, so either centre it on the overall cancellation rate (then orange/blue means below/above average) or use a sequential palette. Countries with only a handful of bookings get the strongest colours, same issue as viz 1, so a minimum bookings filter helps. Portugal is by far the biggest origin in this data and probably deserves its own callout. I'd also remove the Latitude/Longitude (generated) and parking space filters, readers won't use them.  

     

    Viz 4. I couldn't tell what each bubble is without hovering, so label them or use shape for the other dimension. Average days on the waiting list is close to zero for most of the bubbles, because most bookings never wait at all. "% of bookings that waited" would show much more. Bubble size for 0.28 to 1.15 special requests is hard to read, and this one is trying to answer four things at once, so I would split it in two.  

     

    Labels: only the highs/lows or the marks you talk about in the text. Tooltips don't look overloaded to me. 

Hanh Le
8. Okt., 22:17
Seeking feedback on draft dashboard: Do our charts answer our research questions?

Hi, we are graduate students working on a draft dashboard for a data visualization course. 

  • The data cover 156 countries’ Happiness Scores (0–10) and six explanatory factors from the World Happiness Report 2019. 
  • Our research questions are: which countries are happiest and least happy, which factors are most strongly associated with happiness, and how freedom differs between the top and bottom 10. 
  • We would appreciate specific feedback on the clarity and design of our current visualizations before finalizing the dashboard.

Link:  

https://public.tableau.com/views/WorldHappiness2019WhatGoesAlongwithHappiness/Dashboard-WHR2019Overview?:language=en-US&:sid=&:redirect=auth&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link

  1. Is it clear that the three scatter plots should be compared with each other (strong → moderate → weak), or does the layout need a stronger visual cue? 
  2. Do the chart types make the main findings easy to understand, or would you recommend a different visualization for any of them?
  3. Are the titles, captions, labels, and color choices clear without creating unnecessary visual clutter?
  4.  Does the sequence of the six charts create a logical story, or would you change their order before combining them into a dashboard?
  5. In the last worksheet, we compare the average Freedom to Make Life Choices score for the top 10 and bottom 10 happiest countries using a two-bar chart.      

    Is the two-bar comparison sufficient for communicating the difference, or would showing the individual country distribution with a dot plot or box plot provide more useful context without making the visualization too complex?  

Thank you for your time!

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Priya Areti
3. Sept., 23:07
Under Server, I only see Run Optimizer

Hi everyone,

I’m using Tableau Desktop Public Edition 2026.2.2 on Windows and I’m trying to publish a completed dashboard to Tableau Public.

The problem is:

  •  Under Server, I only see Run Optimizer
  •  I do not see Tableau Public → Save to Tableau Public
  •  The shortcut Ctrl + Shift + S also does nothing 
  • Help → About Tableau Public confirms I’m on Public Edition 2026.2.2
  •  I also encountered this error earlier when trying to publish: 

     

    “Unexpected error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'apply')”

The workbook itself opens and works normally, and I can save it locally. I’ve also tried restarting Tableau and signing into Tableau Public in the browser.

Has anyone seen this in Public Edition 2026.2.2? Is there another way to trigger publishing, or is this a known bug with the current build?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! 

 

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2 Antworten
  1. John Ben
    1. Okt., 20:56

     I haven’t run into this exact issue, but it sounds like the publishing option isn’t loading properly in the Public Edition. Since the workbook works normally and the error appeared during publishing, it could be related to the current build. Hopefully someone from Tableau can confirm whether this is a known issue. 

Shubhangi Jadhav
29. Sept., 05:31
Tableau- excel worksheets- data connections-working with tables without join

I have compiled the number of SQL results for my data analytics project into one excel workbook. How can I have multiple Excel sheets in Tableau but not have connections among them? The tables in each Excel sheet aren't necessarily connected. And do not want them to be connected. 

  

Meanwhile, for each chart, I am connecting this same Excel workbook and establishing a new connection every time. I hope there is a better and simpler way.

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  1. Hari Ankem (8x Tableau Ambassador)
    3. Okt., 06:10

    Having common fields/keys is not a requirement for doing a union of Excel files. Try it and see if it helps.

KP KP
25. Sept., 19:28
I can't figure out what is wrong with my movie mean profit % (by genre)?

I have gone in circles Googling and I must be missing something glaringly obvious. I am trying to add a worksheet to my data viz that shows the mean profit % by genre. In my data source I have the budget, revenue, profit dollars, and profit % for each movie (along with the genre).  

 

When I add the pill for the profit % the math just doesn't add up (whether I use AVG or SUM). Do I need to add a total for each genre in my spreadsheet somewhere in order to get the mean profit%? Should I remove the movies that have -100% profit from the spreadsheet> My Mystery and Science Fiction genres show 1000%+ and that should be way off. None of the other genres are correct either. I am new to Tableau. I love the platform but I still clearly struggle with the Excel -> Tableau workflows. Thank you for any help or suggestions! 

 

My Data Viz on Public: 

https://public.tableau.com/views/Movies_17901921237330/Sheet1?:language=en-US&:sid=&:redirect=auth&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link

 

 

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Movies 4.xlsx
2 Antworten
  1. Hari Ankem (8x Tableau Ambassador)
    2. Okt., 06:15

    You need to create a calculated field in Tableau to compute the Profit % as follows: SUM([profit]) / SUM([budget]). 

    You should not use the pre-computed value in your data.