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some of the rep wantes to see their territory data on Pulse metrics. 

Is it possible to do this on Tableau Pulse ? 

or is their any capability of pulse we can achieve. 

can you share a scenario or solution if I can achieve this? 

 

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  1. 9月2日 15:22

    Hi Himshikha, happy to help! Yes, Pulse can do Rep-level self-service, but through adjustable metric filters on the metric page, not a custom homepage, so your understanding there is right. 

     

    1. On the metric definition, add your Rep field as an adjustable metric filter (in Create/Edit Metric). Once it is there, any user can filter that metric to a specific Rep directly on the metric page and change it themselves, that is the granular self-service filter the client wants. Keep it within the first 20 adjustable filter fields, because those are also what drive the breakdowns and the AI insights. 

     

    2. When a user applies a filter, Pulse creates a filtered version of that metric for them, and their filter and time selections are preserved on their own Pulse home and in their digest. So each Rep effectively builds their personalized view by following the metric and setting the filter, rather than you building a per-user homepage. 

     

    3. Tie it to the RLS you already set up: the Virtual Connection data policy scopes each user to their own rows automatically, so a Rep only ever sees their data even before touching a filter. The adjustable filter and breakdown then let them slice within that. Together that gives real Rep-level self-service. 

     

    You are right that there is no free-form custom homepage builder in Pulse, that is by design, it is metric-definition driven. If the client genuinely needs an ad-hoc build-your-own filtered page, that is a Tableau viz or dashboard use case, not Pulse. 

     

    if this helps, please mark it as the Best Answer so it helps the next person, thanks 🙂

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Can Tableau Pulse be self-service at a granular level, with filters such as Rep level?

The client is expecting a filter directly on the metric page. My understanding is that we can't create a customized homepage in Pulse with such filters; rather, users can open/follow a metric and apply the respective filters configured for that metric.

I hope I'm understanding this correctly. If there is any other solution or workaround that can meet the client's requirement, that would be really helpful.  

 

  1. Pulse to be used as a self-service tool if Reps want to utilize it for any modifications on that page 

2. Can we make it easier/gives insights faster (less clicks)? Since the reps usually use this on Field and on iPad.  

 

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  1. 8月31日 13:42

    @Himshikha Purohit

     

    Hi, the best idea could be to use the Tableau Pulse object in a Tableau Workbook Dashboard. 

     

    I exactly don't remember if it was 2025.3 or 2026.1 when Tableau introduced the capability of Dashboard filter controls (not Filter Actions) can affect Pulse Metrics. 

     

    Thus: 

    a. Create a workbook in Tableau Cloud (Explore -> New Workbook) 

    b. Connect to the published datasource your metrics use. 

    c. Create a simple sheet and drag filters to the filter shelf. Show filters. 

    d. Create a Dashboard, and drag your sheet. 

    e. Drag Tableau Pulse objects to bring your metrics into the Dashboard.  Don't forget to  toggle on "Respond to filter selection"  

    f. Publish your workbook. Your metrics will respond to the filter selections. 

     

    For more info, you may take a look of: 

    https://help.tableau.com/current/online/en-us/pulse_dashboard.htm#how-dashboard-filters-affect-pulse-metrics

     

     

    If this post resolves the question, would you be so kind to "Accept this Answer"?. This will help other users find the same answer/resolution and help community keep track of answered questions. Thank you. 

     

    Regards, 

     

    Diego Martinez 

    Tableau Visionary and Tableau Ambassador 

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Hi, it seems we cant adjust the filter of exisiting following metrics on tableau pulse while accessing it by mobile. Is it a bug ? Or the function is absolutely not available when we access by mobile ?

Thanks

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  1. 2024年6月3日 22:27

    Hi Monika,

     

    Sometimes when you convert from normal view to mobile view the filters will only operate on the original normal view - I've never done enough research into the specific reason why this happens but you can confirm this by using the filter and switching back to the normal view - it should have applied on that screen, but doesn't on the mobile view.

     

    To get around this, just delete the filter, then in the mobile view re-expose the filter which you know will apply to that sheet, and it will work just like the original should have. Technically this is 2 separate filters, but I doubt your usecase will have users that dynamically switch between mobile and desktop views (its a very rare event and F5 refresh will fix it).

     

    HTH

     

    Peter

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I have used fields from Tableau Prep Output in Tableau Pulse to configure Custom Calendar.  

Since 'Day of Year', 'Week of Year', 'Month of Year', 'Quarter', 'Year' must be of INT data type for pulse custom calendar, I have kept these fields as INT in prep flow. But I guess these f

ields are treated as Measures in flow because it is in INT format. And Pulse can't detect these fields as Dimensions

, hence I am not able to set-up custom calendar. How can I resolve this issue ? 

While in extract it is working perfectly as we can convert these fields to Dimensions! 

 

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  1. 6月29日 07:12

     Edit the published datasource directly in tableau cloud server move the fields from Measures to Dimensions, and over write the existing datasource instead of creating a new one. Future Prep flow runs will refresh only the extract, preserving your metadata changes. 

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Hi all,

I'm in the process of setting up a custom financial calendar for use in Tableau Pulse and running into a specific issue when trying to apply it to a metric.

I’ve built a calendar table that follows Tableau’s documented requirements for Pulse custom calendars. The financial year starts on 1 March, and the table includes all required fields: "Reference date", "Day of year", "Week of year", "Month of year", "Month name", "Quarter", and "Year". The calendar spans from March 2021 through February 2025, with every single day represented and no missing values. All fields are within the same table.

I’m using the Sample Superstore dataset to test this. I’ve created a relationship between "Reference date" in the calendar and "Order Date" in the Superstore data.

In the Pulse metric builder, the custom calendar fields appear correctly, and I’m able to select them when setting the calendar for the metric. However, when I click "Apply", I get a 400 Bad Request error. The configuration fails at that point and the calendar isn’t applied.

Despite this failure, I can still proceed to build the metric — but only by continuing without the custom calendar. This highlights that the calendar itself is the issue, not the metric logic or data structure. Pulse allows the metric to be built, but not with the custom calendar attached.

I’ve double-checked that:

  • All required fields are present and properly typed
  • Every day is included across all years, with no gaps or duplicates
  • No filters are applied to the calendar table
  • The relationship between calendar and fact data is recognised and working in Tableau Desktop

If anyone has successfully applied a custom calendar in Tableau Pulse without encountering this issue, I’d really appreciate hearing how that was achieved.

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  1. 8月23日 18:23

     hi,

    The setup sounds correct. Since the calendar fields are visible in Pulse but Apply returns 400, I’d suspect an issue with how Pulse is validating the calendar relationship rather than the calendar fields themselves.

    One thing I’d check is whether the calendar table is configured as a proper date scaffold with a 1-to-many relationship from Calendar → Superstore, with Reference date as a true Date field on both sides.

    Also try testing with a shorter calendar range that fully covers the Superstore Order Date range, then apply the custom calendar again.

    If the same 400 error persists, I’d check the Pulse/ Tableau Cloud version and error details in the browser/network logs, as this could be a Pulse custom-calendar validation issue rather than a Desktop relationship issue.

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Hello, our time series adjustment's minimum time granularity settings for our pulse metrics are currently configured to "Month". However, the day of the month displayed in the dates leads to confusion for our users since we don't actually follow calendar days and only track our data monthly. (For example, FYTD is from Oct 4 to Jul 31, last month is May 30 to June 3

). Is there a way to remove the day in the dates displayed both in the metric cards and filters, as highlighted below? Or any alternative techniques for the dates to reflect properly?  

 

Filters:

Option to Remove the Day of the Month in Tableau Pulse Dates for Monthly Granularity

 

1 Year in Months Sample:

image.png

 

Note that in our use case, custom calendar doesn't work out because the data is already aggregated monthly and configured by monthly fiscal calendar in the data source level (retracking this back to daily calendar days isn't ideal). Setting it up again using the custom calendar feature will offset the dates every period and lead to invalid numbers. Hence, we only setup the fiscal start using Desktop and publish/use that as the data source. 

 

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Hello, 

 

Our company uses a reporting calendar which starts on different dates each year (although always on a Monday); also, although most years have 52 weeks / 364 days, there are occasionally 53 weeks / 371 days in a year. 

 

In our database, we have two date-related tables, the first one maps each calendar date to a reporting period (day, week, month, quarter, year): 

Custom Calendar with varying start dates, and mixture of 52 and 53 week years

 

The second one maps each calendar date to the corresponding reporting period's start and end date, including the dates for the year-on-year comparisons: 

image.png

 

Combining both tables into one shouldn't be a problem, but once done, I am not sure how to configure the custom calendar in Pulse so that data can be displayed correctly. 

 

The above date logic has already been incorporated into a view for the sales data, however in the Tableau dashboards, I have created custom calculations with parameters in order to show the sales - the problem is this just sets values outside of the reporting period to zero, meaning when I do the same in Pulse, the graph will start from the 1st of January, but the first of January until the start of the reporting year will just be a line with zero data, and then the last 3 or so months of the reporting year will get missed (since they are in the next calendar year). 

 

The main questions are: 

 

1. Does Tableau Pulse support a reporting calendar of varying lengths? When CY is 52 weeks, and LY was 53 weeks, the YoY comparison would be CY 1-52 vs LY 2-53; when CY is 53 weeks, and LY was 52 weeks, the YoY comparison would be CY 1-53 vs LY 1-52 + CY 1 (so week 1 gets double counted). So, it's not always just a simple comparison of Week 1 with Week 1 of prior year. 

 

2. Does Tableau Pulse support reporting calendars which start on different dates each year, e.g. 2026-03-30 vs 2025-03-31? 

 

If yes to both, how do I configure it so Tableau Pulse knows which date ranges to use? The key is that there is always a 364 day difference between CY and LY comparisons. 

 

 

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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. 7月31日 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 “off‑on” 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.”

    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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I have created a metric and somwhere dates are are missing so trend is broken on Pulse but i want a continues line even if value is 0 it should continues on 0 not like broken. 

 

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  1. 7月23日 15:08

    This latest response is unfortunately a ChatGPT post. Based on the number of responses overnight and through today, the effort might even be automated. We have a BAN on any A.I. posts due to the high error rate.  So, we're considering these posts as spam. Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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I am creating some of the metrics in Tableau Pulse and saw that trend is breaking in between and kind of continuous but in some point where the data is not available for dates in database the line just get breaks and starts again from wherever the data comes 

What I want is a  non breaking line like even if the data is not present it should show 0 but a continuous line. 

 

How can I achieve this ? 

 

Attaching screenshot for the reference: 

 

Is there a way to show a non breaking line and have data as 0 for non existing dates present in the data in tableau Pulse ?

 

Please suggest the solution or guide if it's doable or how to achieve ? 

Really in need of this solution. 

 

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  1. 7月2日 17:47

    @Himshikha Purohit

     

    I don't think that would be possible. My best suggestion would be for you to create an idea (

    https://ideas.salesforce.com/s/post

    )  

     

    Something like a check box -> "null values to zero when missing values" 

     

    If this post resolves the question, would you be so kind to "Accept this Answer"?. This will help other users find the same answer/resolution and help community keep track of answered questions. Thank you. 

     

    Regards, 

     

    Diego Martinez 

    Tableau Visionary and Tableau Ambassador 

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