Hi Don,

Currently, the only way to do this would be to get the grand total on a worksheet by itself and the details on a separate sheet. Then, place the two sheets on a dashboard together. This might be a good one to add to the Ideas section though!

-Tracy

Don.....I have the same issue for a client of mine....a very large bank that prefers all totals at the top as their executive audience (Interactors) have always seen totals at the top.  As Tracy said you unfortunately have to waste the space of another sheet to achieve your end

Larry, just in case you missed it, here's the link to vote on this idea.

--Shawn

Don, Joe's been cranking out forum answers all day! And he just posted a solution to a question similar to your's. I took his workbook and moved the pills from the columns to the rows and it gives you exactly what you're looking for. You'll need to ask Joe how it works, it's all his wizardry!

--Shawn

Also the advantage of this method over using something like a discrete pill for TOTAL(SUM([Sales])) in the Columns shelf as detailed at http://community.tableau.com/message/174779 is that this method of duplicating the data works when you want to have things nested within a hierarchy.

Grand total at top - Joe I need this for a major account but the question is what are the exact steps to achieve this assuming that you are dealing with the Tableau user who is not SQL statement conversant?  This can help many people with my account but it has to be replicated easily

Hi

Has there been any change in Tableau since this post? with placing totals on the left, or at the top of a worksheet?

Thanks

Ruan

I saw an update on this feature in TC 2015 where we can change the Total location to the TOP or LEFT, not sure which version will that be. Can someone from Tableau comment on it.

Looking to solve this issue as well.

http://community.tableau.com/ideas/1320

Its already in BETA.

Hopefully we will see in next release.

Fingers crossed.......