Hi Community,
Is there a problem with Tableau Public and shapes on the Marks card. It seems this started before conference, and I was hoping it was something getting updated but it’s still there. The issue is we can set up a dashboard using custom shapes in Desktop but when it gets published the shapes are all lost. It does not even show custom shapes or our color pallets.
It gets even more odd because in Desktop the calculation is on shape and allows us to edit the shape but when it’s published, the pill is still on shape (or so it says) but you do not have the edit shape option. The two attached screens are the desktop view and then on Tableau public showing the same views. Also note that on Tableau Public, the shape on the marks card isn’t active and when you do switch to auto and then back to shape, you only get the basic handful of shapes.
Has anyone had this before or is there a work around? We have a lot of workbooks that used custom shapes which can’t be refreshed because we would lose the shape option. If this is a known issue, is there a workaround?
We are using desktop with the most recent update – 2023.2.20
Thank you
I don't think the problem is the availability of the shapes, it's the string representation of True and False. As far as Tableau is concerned, your image on the left is colouring, and shaping things based on values like t2016-01-01, and on the right with values like true2016-01-01, which are obviuosly different values (different text representations of the same underlying values), so will get different shapes and colours for each value. It's the conversion of the True/False to a string that's causing your problem. I don't know why it would be different in Desktop vs Public, but you could fix it by having a more robust calculation, like
IF [PYear Horizontal] = [Year (Horizontatl Par)]) THEN
"True"
ELSE
"False"
END
+
[Year (Horizonatl Par)]
You might encounter more difficulties when doing things like referring to a Year as a string, but that's a different topic.
