Building your first Dashboard

Creating a new Dashboard is as simple as creating a new Worksheet: choose one of the following ways (and find your new favorite one!):

Welcome to the Dashboard workplace. Do you see the three Worksheets you built on the left? I hope you understand now why renaming them was very important. You don't want too have many Worksheets named Sheet 1, Sheet 2, Sheet 3, and so on. I've been there and trust me, it's a nightmare!

Assembling the Dashboard

The first step when you build a Dashboard is to assemble your Worksheets:

1. Drag and drop the Profit by State Worksheet where Tableau invites you to do so.
2. Drag and drop the Sales and profit by Sub-Category Worksheet beneath the map. The gray area helps you to see where the Worksheets are going to be:

3. Drag and drop the Profit Evolution Worksheet on the right of Sales and profit by Sub-Category. Again, use the gray area to preview the location:

4. Double-click on Dashboard 1 at the bottom and rename your Dashboard Sales and profit...