Reminder

Tableau CoP Meetings are recorded

Tableau Office Hours

Office Hours = bring your questions and we’ll get them solved

CoP = we’ll have demos for you

Security Question

Q: If I want to share my Tableau reports with another group, how best can I do that?

Create an AD group for them, or ask them for an AD group and request busintel@ucsd.edu add them to the folder.

Highlighting

Q: Can you bold a column?

Yes = Format Text

Drill Through to Jira

Q: How is this set up?

Action option on dashboards = https://www.tableau.com/blog/rough-guide-dashboard-actions

Toggle for Output

Q: How do we deconstruct the toggle?

See demo = Create Parameters

How do I see if a data source is being used?

In Tableau, go to the Explore window.

1. Change the explore object to ‘All Data Sources’ (note, you should only see the data sources you have access to)

2. Click the filter on the right to see filter options

3. Focus the list on key data sources

Open

How do I see if a workbook is being used?

In Tableau, go to the Explore window.

1. Change the explore object to ‘All Workbooks’ (note, you should only see the workbooks you have access to)

2. Click the filter on the right to see filter options

3. Focus the list on key data sources

Open

Master - Child Relationship

Q: Is this available in Tableau?

Unfortunately no.

Bursting

Q: Is bursting available in Tableau?

Only available in Cognos but you can set up views and subscriptions.

Even if you set up the subscription only the person on the subscription can modify it.

Tableau Upgrade

Planning for end of March / early April

Tableau Upgrades

Next Time

How can an extract be created so that it is only the data used in the workbook?

UCOP is using this

https://data.ucop.edu/support-training/tableau-user-group.html

Reminder

Tableau CoP Meetings are recorded

Tableau Resources

Blink > https://blink.ucsd.edu/technology/bi/tools/tableau/index.html

ACP > Analytics Community of Practice (ACP)

CoP Meeting Notes > Search on page > Tableau CoP Meetings

Training >Tableau Training

Upgrades > Tableau Upgrades

Tableau UCSD Public > Tableau UCSD Public

Maillist > Analytics CoP Mail Lists

Student Workers

Can use Tableau student license to build workbooks.

Can publish to Tableau Prod for business use, must use same publishing process as employees: AH Security FAQs

Cannot use Tableau Prod for class work or research projects.

Next Time

How can an extract be created so that it is only the data used in the workbook?

UCOP is using this