Hey Shawn,

Solid question, I also cannot imagine this being a useful way to format things. Hopefully this post gets some good responses to this question!

-Diego

I've never seen anything anywhere near that long, but I have seen some in things I have done that were nested 4 or 5 deep. It appears to be the unintended consequence of repeatedly rearranging sheets in the dashboard. Tableau automatically creates container objects when you insert sheets above or beside other sheets. If you then move that sheet somewhere else, that container remains behind. When you insert another one, it may create another container when one is unnecessary.

I do agree that if Tableau is going to automatically create containers, it should also automatically remove them when they are unnecessary. At the very least, it should use an existing container if one exists, rather than inserting another one inside it.

One thing I found interesting was that once I managed to right-click and 'float' every object at the end of the chain, the chain simply removed itself. That was a nice discovery.

That is a VERY nice discovery! Excellent trick to clean things up. Thanks for that!

One way to create same problem Containers remain there unless you remove them or float objects.

Ville