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Published inAug 2020
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Joshua N. Milligan
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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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Interactivity with actions

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 six 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).
  • Go to Sheet: The user's action causes navigation to a selected sheet or dashboard.
  • Parameter actions: The user's action changes the value of a parameter. This allows the user to visually interact with parameters in new and exciting ways!
  • Set actions: The user's action defines a...
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Published in: Aug 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800200364

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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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