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Trying to determine if this is a bug or a setting I need to turn off - either way it has been impossible to solve being that my question uses very common terminology: 

How can I delete a Parent Container with multiple Child Containers contained within?

When I upgraded to Tableau 2026.1.1, I am unable to Remove a Container containing multiple items from my dashboard.

• I select the parent container and then the option "Remove from Dashboard" -> Warning: Delete Layout Container -> "Delete Container" -> nothing happens
• I go into the Layout tab again select the option "Remove from Dashboard" -> Warning: Delete Layout Container -> "Delete Container" -> nothing happens

When I revert back to Tableau 2023.3, I am able to Remove a Container containing multiple items again (sorry yes I hadn't updated in a long while)

• I go into the Layout tab again select the option "Remove from Dashboard" -> Warning: Delete Layout Container -> "Delete Container" -> parent container and all children containers are deleted

Hi everyone,

I’m working on a Tableau dashboard where users select a Mission ID using a filter dropdown.

Some Mission IDs are milestone-based, while others are not.

I have a field [Milestone Rank], and the condition for a milestone-based Mission ID is:

COUNTD([Milestone Rank]) > 0

I have a separate dashboard section containing several milestone-related charts. What I want is:

•  If the selected Mission ID is milestone-based → show the milestone section. 
•  If the selected Mission ID is not milestone-based → completely hide the milestone section. 
•  When the section is hidden, I also want the empty space to collapse, rather than leaving a blank area. 
•  The Mission ID list comes from the database, so new Mission IDs can be added over time. 
•  Ideally, I want to keep the Mission ID as a filter dropdown, rather than requiring the user to manually change another Show/Hide parameter. 

I tried using Dynamic Zone Visibility, but Tableau does not show my Boolean calculated field as an available value for “Control visibility using value.”

I also tried a Boolean parameter for Show/Hide, but then the user has to manually change the parameter every time they select a different Mission ID, which isn't practical.

Is there a way to make Dynamic Zone Visibility respond automatically to the selected Mission ID while keeping the Mission ID as a filter?

If not, what would be the recommended Tableau approach for achieving:

Mission ID filter → detect whether milestone exists → automatically show/hide a dashboard zone → collapse the space when hidden?

Thanks! 

When looking at the data source tab of a report I don't own, that has an extract generated from Snowflake (using stored OAUTH credentials in the report owner's account), editing the connection, I see this:The owner of the report sees this:

I spent a while wondering how this report was successfully updating without any credentials. Now that I know, I'll probably just ignore it, but that means I can't diagnose if that's the reason a report is legitimately not updating, without asking the owner (who may not be available) to check for me. That dialog will look the same to me whether there are stored credentials or not. Am I overcomplicating it (cos' I'd get some other extract error if there was, say, a query problem, so this would be the catch-all)? 

APAC Command Centre — a business performance dashboard with drill-down views across Product Performance, Customer Cost/Value, and Operations & Shipping, tracking gross profit, margin, and return rate trends.

Spotify Analysis — an end-to-end music streaming analytics build. Raw data cleaned and joined in Alteryx (900K+ play events, dedup, date/boolean standardization, a custom macro), visualized across an Executive Overview and Content Performance dashboard with parameter-driven Top-N views and a custom dark theme.

Would appreciate feedback on:

• Visual design — readability, contrast, anything that feels off
• Chart choices — anywhere you'd have visualized something differently
• Navigation/drill-down flow — intuitive, or confusing anywhere?
• Anything that reads as unfinished — direct critique welcome

Links below — thanks to anyone who takes a look! 

APAC Command Centre -

Spotify Analysis -

How can I connect to Spatial data stored in Google BigQuery using Tableau 2026.2? 

According to the Tableau knowledge base I should be able to work with GEOGRAPHY columns when connecting to Google BigQuery directly.  

However I seem to not see the spatial data when connecting.  

I created a test table, to ensure I do not bring in anything but what I want to test. However when dragging in this table the query I can see Tableau uses to fetch the data only select string, float and integers none of the GEOGRAPHY columns.  

When transforming to Custom SQL, and if I hard-code 1 column manually to ensure it is sent, I can see Tableau wraps this into a sub-query. Whilst the outer query is still only selecting non-Geography columns.   

What can I do to connect to spatial data, is there anything I am missing? 

The demo table is build using this query: 

  1 AS id,

  -- 1. BigQuery GEOGRAPHY: POINT

  ST_GEOGPOINT(5.16, 52.77) AS geography_point,

  -- 2. BigQuery GEOGRAPHY: LINESTRING

  ST_GEOGFROMTEXT(

    'LINESTRING(5.10 52.70, 5.20 52.75, 5.30 52.80)'

  ) AS geography_linestring,

  -- 3. BigQuery GEOGRAPHY: POLYGON

  ST_GEOGFROMTEXT(

    'POLYGON((5.0 52.0, 5.1 52.0, 5.1 52.1, 5.0 52.1, 5.0 52.0))'

  ) AS geography_polygon,

-- 4. WKT als STRING: POINT

  'POINT(5.16 52.77)' AS wkt_point,

  -- 5. WKT als STRING: LINESTRING

  'LINESTRING(5.10 52.70, 5.20 52.75, 5.30 52.80)' AS wkt_linestring,

  -- 6. WKT als STRING: POLYGON

  'POLYGON((5.0 52.0, 5.1 52.0, 5.1 52.1, 5.0 52.1, 5.0 52.0))' AS wkt_polygon,

  -- 7. Latitude als FLOAT64

  52.77 AS latitude,

  -- 8. Longitude als FLOAT64

  5.16 AS longitude,

  -- 9. NULL GEOGRAPHY

  CAST(NULL AS GEOGRAPHY) AS geography_null,

  -- 10. GEOGRAPHY via expliciete cast

  CAST(

    ST_GEOGFROMTEXT(

      'POLYGON((5.4 52.0, 5.5 52.0, 5.5 52.1, 5.4 52.1, 5.4 52.0))'

    )

    AS GEOGRAPHY

  ) AS geography_cast

Table in BigQuery  

When converting to Custom query this is the query in Tableau  

When adding geography_point Tableau sends the query as this, with the column in the sub-query but nothing in the outer query 

I have a tableau table like as shown below

I don't know why the table border line is not fully displayed. I have set all border lines across "sheet", "rows", "columns" but still this doesn't show properly.

However, when I hover my cursory around `Region of SoldTo` or `Div Chan APAC` or `Subregion Resp APAC`, I am able to see full border for that specific cell. If I move the cursor away from that cell, the border line again vanishes and turns into half as shown in screenshot above

How can I avoid this?