The green container contains the legends and filters and is created automatically by tableau.
Filter container tableau.
A floating horizontal container that extends beyond the boundaries of the dashboard.
New and old tableau users alike struggle with grasping tableau s concept of layout containers.
A blank worksheet that can show or hide with action filters.
I used to hate them because i didn t understand how they worked or rather why most of the time they would just not work even if i expected them to work.
You can manually set the width of a vertical sub container or the height of a horizontal sub container.
This sheet controls the positioning of other elements inside the main horizontal container.
In the upper right of the layout container there is an arrow a funnel and a x.
Containers allow you to essentially group dashboard objects sheets text images filters etc together.
Choose dashboard actions and double click the generated filter you just created.
Then i had to get to know them and now i love them.
From the drop down menu of the sheet you want to expand choose use as filter.
It holds three horizontal containers color coded below plus individual elements for text images filters legends and the worksheet we ll use for the close icon.
The yellow container encloses all containers.
Under objects on the dashboard pane add a layout container by dragging a horizontal or vertical container to the view.
How to create a container layout.
Use one of the above methods to add the filter to the default layout.
Rather filters are added over the dashboard to equally affect all the analysis in order to obtain context specific insights from all the analyses.
A blank worksheet that can be shown or hidden with action filters.
Tableau desktop will automatically add the filter to all device layouts if no modifications have been made to the device layout separate from the default layout.
The diagram below shows how the menu container is structured.
In the target sheets section of the edit filter action dialog box select the other sheets in the layout container.
This sheet controls the positioning of other elements inside the main horizontal container.
This means the container itself can be moved anywhere on the dashboard and and the dashboard objects within will stay the same size and in the same position relative to each other.
Add multiple sheets with related data to a layout container.
To control how target sheets resize when no marks are.
A horizontal object will place your sheets from.
Layout containers in tableau 8 force spatial relationships between dashboard components.
A floating horizontal container that extends beyond the boundaries of the dashboard.
A vertical sub container for the visualisation.
A vertical sub container for the menu area.
Containers in tableau people either love them or hate them.
I put together this exercise last week for a recent training course to help explain what is going on behind the scenes.
This is a guide to adding filters in tableau dashboard.