From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards (2019)
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Additional information and help - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards (2019)
Additional information and help
- [Instructor] Sometimes, in order to make our dashboard easier to understand, we need to provide additional information that is being seen in the view. Now, this tends to be maybe instructions on how to read the dashboard, or information about where the data's come from. But, we know that space is a premium, and we don't want to waste that space with information that somebody's only going to read once, and then probably never again. So we can use help or information buttons to give that information when the person needs it, without taking up real estate space. So in this example, we're going to create a button that shows both help and information on our dashboard. We're going to make use of tooltips, so when somebody hovers over the icon, it's going to give that information to them. Now in order for this to work, we need to do a couple of things. So first of all, we need to get an image file. This lives in our Tableau Repository, which is in your Document folder. There's a folder in…
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