Building Dashboards & Stories Flashcards

A dashboard contains a map of sales by state and a bar chart of sales by customer. The designer wants users to be able to click on a state in the map and have the bar chart automatically update to show only the customers from that selected state. Which feature is required to create this interaction?

Answer: A Filter Action

A Filter Action sends information from a selected mark (the source sheet) to another sheet (the target sheet), filtering the data on the target sheet based on the selection. This is the correct method for making one visualization dynamically filter another.

When building a dashboard, you need to place a company logo image in the top-right corner so that it overlaps a worksheet containing a title. Which layout property must be applied to the image object to allow it to be placed on top of another object?

Answer: Floating

Floating objects can be placed anywhere on the dashboard, including on top of other tiled or floating objects. Tiled objects are arranged in a grid and cannot overlap.

A developer has created a comprehensive sales dashboard that is viewed on desktops in the office and on tablets by the field sales team. To provide an optimized and rearranged view for the tablet users without creating a completely separate workbook, which Tableau feature should be used?

Answer: Creating custom Device Layouts

Tableau's Device Layouts feature allows a single dashboard to have multiple, customized layouts for different device types like desktop, tablet, and phone. This enables the creator to optimize the arrangement of objects for each screen size within the same dashboard.

A business analyst needs to present a step-by-step analysis to stakeholders, guiding them through a series of discoveries. Each step involves a different visualization or a different filtered state of a single dashboard. What Tableau feature is specifically designed for creating this kind of guided, narrative presentation?

Answer: A Story

A Tableau Story is a sequence of visualizations that work together to convey information. Each step in the sequence is a "story point," which can be a worksheet or a dashboard. This feature is designed to tell a data narrative and guide an audience through a specific path of analysis.

To ensure a dashboard will be displayed with a consistent and precise layout of 1200 x 800 pixels when embedded in a company portal, which sizing option should the developer choose?

Answer: Fixed Size

The 'Fixed Size' option allows the developer to specify the exact height and width of the dashboard in pixels. This ensures that the dashboard maintains its exact dimensions and layout, which is critical for embedding into web pages or portals with specific size requirements.

Which of the following dashboard objects is used to display content from an external website or internal web application directly within a Tableau dashboard?

Answer: Web Page Object

The Web Page object allows you to embed a fully functional web browser within your dashboard. This can be used to display web pages from the internet or an intranet, and can be made dynamic using URL Actions.