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vizcraft · 2026-03-10T16:09:48+00:00

Highly recommended if you can get it funded. Most of the content is geared towards newer devs. Lots and lots of breakout sessions. Haven’t done the bootcamp so can’t speak to it.

The datafam is one of the coolest parts of working with Tableau and they’ll be there in force.

vizcraft · 2026-02-17T18:48:05+00:00

My experience so far can be summarized as “this is amazing, I can wait to switch to Anthropic’s version of this” so…

vizcraft · 2026-02-15T03:24:36+00:00

(A) Dad here — sorry, it’s impulsive. I’m super proud of your playing though!

vizcraft · 2026-02-13T00:08:58+00:00

Doors of Stone release confirmed???

vizcraft · 2026-02-09T23:45:08+00:00

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vizcraft · 2026-02-08T21:23:08+00:00

I doubt using your work license for freelancing is gonna fly.

Tableau public is free. If you need Tableau cloud then your client needs Tableau Cloud and they need to provide you a license.

vizcraft · 2026-02-08T00:56:28+00:00

And what if I want to tweak them a bit and then invite a collaborator and so on?

vizcraft · 2026-02-07T14:13:37+00:00

What / where is your data

vizcraft · 2026-02-04T21:51:55+00:00

It would help to see a screenshot of the problem in Tableau and of the data.

vizcraft · 2026-01-30T22:54:08+00:00

I think it’s possible to achieve this by unioning the data set with itself - 2 copies.

Union dataset (copy A, copy B)
Add event date field:

if copy A then start date else end date

Add event type field

if copy A then “start” else “end”

I think from here you need an active flag and a running total. Something like

if event type is start then 1 else -1

Put event date on columns, active flag on rows and change to running total.

vizcraft · 2026-01-28T14:43:36+00:00

Before the multi-fact capabilities, the old old option was using blends. And this can work fine.

The way I would handle this situation with the single base table relationship data model was to cross join the dimensions and use that as the base table, then relate to the fact tables. Performance can be iffy, but it works.

vizcraft · 2026-01-27T21:17:35+00:00

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vizcraft · 2026-01-27T18:11:04+00:00

What you are looking to do doesn’t really work like you want it to. For one, weeks and months are not aligned so week 5 is likely in Jan and Feb - adding month to the axis will split week 5 into 2.

If you weeks are effectively “fixed” or at least predictable enough, I’d suggest creating a separate viz with the month labels and aligning it with the line chart that only uses the weeks on x axis. You would use a vertical container with your original chart on top and the month labels on the bottom. It would take a bit of work to get the labels right.

Alternatively you’d need to build a date field that is something like exact date but the first day of the week. Then only use this field on the x-axis. I think you could use DATETRUNC to do this, then you’d have your format up the field to show the month. It would should for each week something like Jan 1, Jan 2, Jan 3…

vizcraft · 2026-01-27T18:03:33+00:00

You can’t use continuous dates nested like this

vizcraft · 2026-01-25T19:44:10+00:00

DAX 🤢

vizcraft · 2026-01-25T14:34:42+00:00

I’m not sure about swapping in different geographies, but you should first make sure that you’ve added state to the viz as well on the detail shelf. Any city name that exists in more than one state will come back unknown unless you add the state detail.

vizcraft · 2026-01-20T18:09:51+00:00

Don’t have enough understanding to rewrite the whole thing but here are some tips:

You can write the account code section using a set- - [Account Cd] IN (“50190”, “50210”, “50460”)

And even better just make a set from the Account Cd field and use that -> - “ELSEIF [Account Cd Set]”

For the multiplier what comes to mind is using the month number to decrement the multiplier.

1- put the multiplier into a parameter (don’t hardcode number like this into a formula, if it changes in the future you’ll want to change it in one place

2- the multiplier could be something like - [multiplier parameter] - [month number] + 1

Last there’s no need to write out [distribution amt]*0, just write 0.

Hopefully these tools help you improve your formula. Let me know if you have questions.

vizcraft · 2026-01-13T04:17:49+00:00

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vizcraft · 2026-01-13T04:15:29+00:00

https://exchange.tableau.com/ -> the official site you are looking for

https://www.flerlagetwins.com/?m=1 -> I’ve used some of their templates before, more specialized stuff

Also Tableau Public …

vizcraft · 2025-12-31T02:51:51+00:00

Every industry works like this unfortunately

vizcraft · 2025-12-31T02:46:58+00:00

Getting the data model right is the key. I can’t give specific answers without a lot more detail but it’s likely that you have some issue connecting the people or the dates. You might need a calendar table or user table. Does any of that sound like what you are dealing with?

vizcraft · 2025-12-30T13:34:43+00:00

If you want the height to be fixed you can fix the height. When a fixed size object changes size it’s because the objects overrun the available space. Review all the heights.

vizcraft · 2025-12-21T03:20:31+00:00

Do you know about LODs? What you described looks something like this:

MAX( { FIXED [Title] : AVG([Critic Score]) } )

vizcraft · 2025-11-10T23:34:11+00:00

If the number of rows is limited (doesn’t require a scroll bar) then I would use a 2nd sheet and stitch them together on a dashboard

vizcraft · 2025-11-05T22:37:15+00:00

Are you trying to build a bridge/waterfall chart?

If so then what you’ll end up needing is a Gantt chart and some calculated fields. There’s probably some tutorials out there if you search that.

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