If I open the attached Excel spreadsheet and do this using Tableau Public in Sheet 1, I get an error:
- Drag Fertility Rate to the Columns shelf.
- Drag Live Expectancy to the Rows shelf.
- In the Analysis menu, uncheck Aggregate Measures.
- Drag Year to the Pages card.
At this point, I get this error:
This is the error text:
Unable to complete action
Internal Error - An unexpected error occurred and the operation could not be completed.
Error Code: 6EA18A9E
If I drag
Year to Columns first, then drag it from Columns to Pages, it then seems to work. Huh? But it gets worse. I continue on, dragging Population and dropping it on Size in the Markscard. Same error.
A student happened to notice that going to
Format > Animations and setting Workbook Default to Offseems to stop these errors. But why? Why am I getting these errors?
It seems like quality control took a nosedive when Tableau forced academic users off of Tableau Desktop and into Tableau Public. It is fragile.
#Tableau Public
Hi Aren,
I tried to reproduce the issue using the attached workbook in Tableau Public.
I followed the same steps:
• Fertility Rate → Columns
• Life Expectancy → Rows
• Unchecked Aggregate Measures
• Year → Pages
• Population → Size
However, I was unable to reproduce the error. The visualization worked as expected, including the Pages control and Size encoding.
Based on that, the issue may be related to a specific Tableau Public version, workbook setting, or environment rather than the dataset itself.
Hope this helps narrow down the cause.
