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Joshua N. Milligan
Joshua N. Milligan
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Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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How actions work

In Tableau, an action is a user initiated event that triggers a response from Tableau. You've seen a few examples of actions being used in dashboards already. We'll now consider some details of how actions work in Tableau.

Tableau supports five kinds of actions:

  • Filter actions: The user's action causes one or more filters to be applied to one or more views.
  • Highlight actions: The user's action causes specific marks and headers to be highlighted in one or more views.
  • URL actions: The user's action causes a specific URL to be opened (either in a browser, a new tab, or in an embedded web object).
  • Set actions: The user's action defines a set. Sets may be used in calculations, filters, and on shelves to define visual attributes of marks. This opens a lot of possibilities to allow for complex and creative interactions.
  • Parameter actions...
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Published in: Mar 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788839525

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Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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