How actions work

You saw a few examples of actions used in dashboards. We'll now consider some details of how actions work in Tableau.

Tableau supports three kinds of actions:

• Filter actions

• Highlight actions

• URL actions

Certain actions are automatically generated by Tableau based on shortcuts. For example, you can select Use as Filter from the drop-down menu of a view on a dashboard, resulting in an automatically generated filter action. Enabling highlighting using the button on a discrete color legend or on the toolbar will automatically generate a highlight action.

You can create or edit dashboard actions by navigating to Dashboard | Actions from the menu. Let's consider the details of each type of action.

Filter actions

Filter actions are defined by a source sheet(s) that passes one or more dimensional values as filters to target sheets upon an action. Remember that every mark on a sheet is defined by the unique intersection of dimensional values. When an action occurs involving one or more...