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This is specifically on Tableau Dekstop Public (Free).  Repositories are saved to <users>\Documents\My Tableau Repository on Windows user folder. The Logs subfolder can grow quite large very quickly, in addition it can send OneDrive to have performance issues. Is there a way to change the location of the Logs folder outside the OneDrive space. 

 

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  1. 29 ago, 20:19

    I don’t think Tableau Public gives you a separate setting just for the Logs folder. The easier fix is to move the whole My Tableau Repository folder somewhere outside OneDrive and point Tableau to that location. I’d do that rather than fighting OneDrive sync on the logs.

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SSMK A (Self Employed) ha fatto una domanda in #Tableau

I have a tableau dashboard that looks like below 

 

How to compute ratio of a specific cell within a table

My objective is to do the below 

 

a) Compute the % of "Oneill Ltd" (from product family column) that makes up the total sales including other product family values 

 

b) I want to store that ratio output in a seperate calculated field. 

 

When I tried the tableau inbuilt feature table calculation, it is computing the ratio for all rows (which I don't want). I want to now the ratio/percentage of "Oneill ltd" only 

 

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  1. 27 ago, 22:03

    Hi, @SSMK A

    I may still not fully understand what you’re trying to achieve, but are the values shown in the Sample diagram what you’re referring to? 

    For checking purposes, I’ve displayed each value as well. 

     

    Since the processing is done with an LOD calculation, please be aware that if you need any filter operations, you’ll have to use a Context Filter. 

     

    <sample>Hi, I may still not fully understand what you’re trying to achieve, but are the values shown in the Sample diagram what you’re referring to? For checking purposes, I’ve displayed each value as well.

     

    <calc>image.pngimage.pngimage.png

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Unable to complete action 

Workbooks saved to Tableau Public must use extracts. To create an extract, click the Data Source tab, then select Create Extract.  

 

The data source, Sheet1 (Tableau_Day_20 _A), is not an extract. 

Error Code: 3C242D89 

 

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  1. 24 ago, 20:22

    Hi Varun,  

     

    I ran into the same error when opening a Tableau Desktop workbook in Tableau Public. It happens because Tableau Public only supports extracts, and the workbook was using a live connection.

    I also didn’t realize at first that Tableau Desktop is now available for free (with some publishing limitations).

    To fix it, try opening the file in Tableau Desktop—it should prompt you to replace or convert the data source (like Superstore/SuperDepotSales) into an extract from your local machine. Once you create the extract, it should work fine in Tableau Public.  

     

    If you find this answer helpful, please mark this as an accepted answer. 

     

    Regards 

    Rajneesh

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I'm hoping someone has seen this or can tell me if it's a known issue. 

 

The problem: Every dashboard I publish to Tableau Public shows an empty/blank thumbnail on my profile. The vizzes themselves open and render perfectly — it's only the thumbnail preview that's blank. This affects a workbook I published several months ago as well as brand-new ones. 

 

What I've confirmed it is NOT: 

- Not a browser/ad-blocker issue: thumbnails are blank in Chrome, Edge, on my phone, and in incognito. 

- Not empty data: the extract contains real data and the dashboards render fully when opened. 

- Not the background: I changed worksheet/dashboard backgrounds from transparent to a solid color, no change. 

- dashboard is a fixed size (1613x1000). 

 

The key finding: Single-worksheet vizzes get a correct thumbnail every time. Only Dashboards come out blank. And when I build a dashboard directly in the browser using web authoring, that dashboard gets a proper thumbnail. It's specifically dashboards authored in Tableau Desktop Public Edition (build 2026.2.1) and published that fail to generate a thumbnail. Simply opening the published workbook with Edit and re-saving doesn't help — the dashboard has to actually be rebuilt in the browser. 

 

My questions: 

1. Is this a known issue with the Tableau Public thumbnail service and dashboards published from the 2026.2.1 Desktop build? 

2. Is there any fix that doesn't require rebuilding every dashboard (and possibly every worksheet) in web authoring? 

 

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  1. 18 ago, 02:18

    Adding to Farhan's and Steve's helpful comments, I think your finding that a single worksheet works, a web-authored dashboard works, but a Desktop-authored dashboard does not gives us a very useful way to narrow this down further.

    Before rebuilding any existing dashboards, I would try creating a very small test workbook in Tableau Public Desktop 2026.2.1:

    1. Create one simple worksheet.
    2. Publish it and confirm that its thumbnail appears.
    3. In the same workbook, create a new dashboard containing only that worksheet.
    4. Publish again without adding any other dashboard objects, containers, images, extensions, etc.
    5. Check whether the thumbnail becomes blank.

    If the worksheet thumbnail works but the minimal dashboard becomes blank, that would be a particularly useful reproducible case because it removes most workbook-specific factors from the equation.

    I would also try publishing the same minimal workbook from a different Desktop Public version, if one is available to you. If the exact same workbook produces a thumbnail from another build but not from 2026.2.1, that would provide stronger evidence that the behavior is related to the Desktop build / publishing path rather than the dashboard design itself.

    One other thing I would avoid for now is rebuilding the production dashboards in Web Authoring just to fix the thumbnails. Since the published dashboards themselves render correctly, and Steve mentioned that a Tableau Public thumbnail issue is already being investigated, rebuilding could involve a lot of work for something that may ultimately be resolved on the service side.

    So, as a next step, I think a minimal reproducible workbook would be very valuable:

    Worksheet → thumbnail OK

     

    Same worksheet placed on Desktop-created Dashboard → thumbnail blank

     

    Equivalent Web-created Dashboard → thumbnail OK

    If that sequence is reproducible, it should give the Tableau team a very clean test case and may also help determine whether this is the same known thumbnail issue Steve mentioned or something specifically related to Desktop Public 2026.2.1.

    Hope this helps with the investigation!

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I'm trying to build a chart in Tableau that combines a side-by-side bar chart with a line chart.

Currently, my view shows Sales as side-by-side bars:

  • Current Year Sales
  • Previous Year Sales

I would like to add a line that represents the Year-over-Year (YoY) % difference for each month, calculated as:

(Current Year Sales - Previous Year Sales) / Previous Year Sales

For example:

  • January: Compare January CY vs January PY and plot the YoY %
  • February: Compare February CY vs February PY and plot the YoY %
  • ...and so on for each month.

My goal is to build this as a Dual Axis chart, where:

  • The bars represent Current Year and Previous Year Sales.
  • The line represents the monthly YoY % difference.

However, I'm running into an issue when calculating the YoY %. The values displayed in the line chart don't seem to be correct, and I suspect it's related to the level of detail or the table calculation, but I haven't been able to figure it out.

Has anyone built a similar visualization before? Is there a recommended approach for calculating the monthly YoY % correctly in a dual-axis side-by-side bar chart? Any guidance or example workbook would be greatly appreciated. 

 

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  1. 5 ago, 09:06

    Hi @Wiwit Setyaningsih

    I'll reiterate both yours and @Gohar Clients thoughts on the compute by - definitely on the right track. Here's where I can take things by working on that and a small tweak and additional calc: Hi I'll reiterate both yours and thoughts on the compute by - definitely on the right track.Workbook re-attached.

     

    First thing you'll see is a new calc: YoY (Latest Year  Only)

    IF LAST()=0THEN [YoY]END

    (NB: I also renamed your "Calculation 3" to YoY). 

    The new calc just says "only return a value for the last year* in the view". We do have to tell Tableau that we care about the year for this part of the calc. And what we end up with is a nested table calc where the compute by for one part is different to the other! 

    Right click and edit the table calculation pill on Rows:

    image.png

    First up I'm working on the "Latest Year Only" calc as you can see in the top drop down. And I tell it to compute by specific dimensions and year only. So the latest year should be the last (LAST()=0) in the window. 

    Now I change the drop down to the "YoY" calc and tell this to compute by specific dimensions again, but this time Year and Month (in that order)

    image.png

    NB: Show calculation assistance is quite handy here as I can check that I am indeed seeing values 13-24 in the window. Now you might be thinking "hang on, how did my lookup -1 work in that case?!?"  and you'd be right! I also changed the lookup to be a lookup by -12 so now we're looking back to the month 12 months ago. 

    The lack of an ELSE in the second calc is what supresses the previous year from showing ... it's still available to the calc as we've "filtered" using a table calc so that happens late in the order of operations ... and those are the "nulls" shown by the >12 nulls indicator. 

    Finally I CTRL+click and drag the pill from Rows onto Mark Text too so that I don't need to repeat the nested compute by there. 

    Let me know if this helps!  

    Compute by is often fiendish enough without (a) nesting; and (b) your great workaround for side-by-side without a discreet pill on Columns! 

    Ta, Steve

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Hi Team,

Requirement 1:   When the dashboard is opened, it should display Category-wise Sales for only the following two categories by default:

  • Furniture
  • Office Supplies

Requirement 2:   When the user selects the tick box (checkbox), the dashboard should switch to display Category-wise Profit for the following three categories:

  • Furniture
  • Office Supplies
  • Technology

Note: The above requirement can be achieved using a parameter; however, the business requirement is to use a tick box (checkbox) instead of a parameter.   

I have attached the Tableau workbook for reference.  Regards,  Venkat    

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  1. 31 lug, 11:05

    Hi, 

    Are you looking for something like the attachment? Please take a look. 

     

    The idea is to create parameters with ON/OFF values and then set up corresponding fields that switch OFF/ON in response, allowing you to control visibility through parameter actions. A dedicated sheet is prepared for the checkbox, where ON and OFF are represented using shapes. Please see the details below. 

      

    This was implemented using only standard features. The display switching is handled by configuring a DZV. 

     

    <sample>Hi, Are you looking for something like the attachment? Please take a look.image.png

     

     <parameter>image.png

     

    <calc>image.pngimage.pngimage.png

     

    <dashboard action>image.png

     

     <check box sheet settings> 

    Using the ā€œoff‑onā€ field from the checkbox sheet, the display switching is achieved through a parameter action. 

     

    -Configuration for the checked state. Please pay attention to the shape and color.

     

    *Sorry if the square shape is a bit confusing, but the checkbox frame itself is represented using borders.ā€

    image.png

     

    -Configuration for the unchecked state. Please pay attention to the shape and color.

    image.png

     

    <Dashboard DZV settings>image.png

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Hello,

I am experiencing a technical issue with Tableau Public that I have not been able to resolve.

I was working on a project with several completed dashboards. At some point, the Data Source tab became completely greyed out, which prevented me from modifying the data source, creating new joins, or adding calculations.

However, the dashboards themselves were still accessible and editable, so I continued working using the data already present in the visualizations.

The problem occurred when saving the project:

  • an Internal Error appears when activating the extract
  • I cannot export the project as a .twbx file
  • I cannot reconnect to the data source
  • after closing Tableau and reopening the file, the dashboards disappear and the project cannot be accessed

Important details:

  • the data files were never moved or renamed
  • they still open normally outside Tableau
  • the dashboards were working before the error occurred

What I have already tried:

  • reloading the data files
  • removing and reconnecting the data source
  • restarting Tableau
  • several other attempts, but the Data Source tab remains greyed out

Has anyone encountered this issue before or knows what could cause it?

Thank you very much for your help. 

 

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Venkat M ha fatto una domanda in #Tableau Agent

Hi Team, 

Requirement: Display data dynamically based on the selected Period Type parameter

  • Day
    • When the user selects Day in the Period Type parameter, the Order Date parameter should display all available dates.
    • The most recent available date should be selected by default.
  • Week
    • When the user selects Week, the Order Date parameter should display only the Monday date of each available week (e.g., 27-Jul-2026, 20-Jul-2026, 13-Jul-2026).
    • Upon selecting a week, the report should display data for the entire Monday-to-Sunday period corresponding to that week.
  • Month
    • When the user selects Month, the Order Date parameter should display all available months.
    • The latest available month (e.g., Jul-2026) should be selected by default.
  • Quarter
    • When the user selects Quarter, the Order Date parameter should display all available quarters.
    • The latest available quarter (e.g., 2026-Q3) should be selected by default.
  • Custom Dates
    • When the user selects Custom Dates, the following parameters should be displayed: 
      • Start Date
      • End Date
    • Report data should be filtered based on the chosen date range.
  • Lifetime
    • When the user selects Lifetime, all available data should be displayed without applying any date filters.
  • #Tableau Agent

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I am looking to visualize a Pass Matrix for a Soccer/football game. I wonder if it is possible to use coordinates to plot on a line graph to show passes between players. I have managed to plot the different positions with a soccer field background so they are arranged in formation and wish to plot lines between all the different players. I will then use the number of passes between players to adjust the size of the line representing passing relationships. I am stuck on how to plot the lines between the different positions even though I have Start + End Coordinates for each position. Any help here would be much appreciated!

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