How to add a dynamic, interactive sorting feature to your Tableau Dashboard. The first article of a guest post series on “Expand your reach in Tableau with Parameters”
To me, one of the most interesting sessions of this year’s Tableau Customer Conference was “Tips & Tricks from the Wild”, where five Tableau champions presented some of their best techniques in Tableau. One of these exceptional Tableau experts is Sheel Bhatiani, Lead Software Developer at Cheyne Capital. I liked his tip so much that I asked if he would be so kind to share some of his tricks here on Clearly and Simply. I am very happy to inform you that Sheel not only agreed to write one guest article here, but rather to publish a whole series of posts on how to “Expand your reach in Tableau with Parameters”. Sheel kicks off his series with today’s article. Enjoy.
Parameters - introduced with Tableau version 6 - are dynamic values that replace constants in calculations. They can be changed by the user of a dashboard or worksheet with an interactive control. This opens a lot of opportunities. Parameters in combination with Calculated Fields enable you to add a whole variety of additional interactivity to your Tableau workbook and dashboard. One of the most interesting things about Parameters is their ability to bring the existing Tableau built-features to the next level.
Today’s first article of my post series here shows the main concept of how to do this and includes a detailed tutorial how to use this for implementing a user-friendly interactive control to change the sort measure and the sort order of a view on a dashboard: Dynamic sorting with Tableau at your fingertips.
Are you ready to expand your reach in Tableau with Parameters? Here you go.
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