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Great initiative Phil !

Though I will be joining the Dev hours today, I wanted to pen down a couple of things that I faced recently and thought would be a great add to Tableau

• while adding Device layouts, i realized that as of today we cannot
  • Add a new device layout (which already does not exists in the preset list)
  • Add multiple layouts from the same Device category - like multiple phones, multiple desktops, etc

          it would be good to be able to do this - as I would like to support multiple phone sizes, etc.

• When switching between multiple device layouts, text tables do not resize column widths automatically - this needs to happen for sure, and preferably decrease/ increase in the same proportion that the column widths are set in the Default view - unless someone manually changes the widths in another layout.
• be able to format, size, move, group multiple objects (text boxes, filters, sheets, layout containers, etc) at once - this is much needed since most of the screen design work we do has to be with articulate designing - almost like a photoshop work. Having to pull around objects and trying to match their x-es and y-s and height-s and width-s is not only tedious but extremely error prone

these are what comes to mind right now - plus a lot of the things already written here are also on my wish-list, but not writing them out again.

looking forward to the discussion today

Cheers !

Bodhi

Another thing I run into when dashboarding (around the lens of "behaving like an application")... I've got a few workbooks that work for multiple types of users... but not all the published views apply to all of those users. It would be great if there were a way to tell server which tabs to show (even though a user might already have permission to view it on server - since the permissions are inherited from the workbook level).

I've created an idea for this, but it hasn't received much traction

https://community.tableau.com/ideas/6078

Has there ever been discussion about creating a way to know "current context" in a calc.  For example, if I am a calc, and I am executing in Sheet1, I want to behave a certain way, but if I am executing in Sheet2, I should do something different.  Likewise, if I am executing on Dashboard1 vs Dashboard2.

Today if I need to do that, usually I can hack up something akin to sheet swapping.  Force one condition to exist on Sheet1 and another to exist on Sheet2.  Usually I can make something happen to that effect.

It's just a brainstorming idea.  I wouldn't displace something more urgent in favor of this idea if I were prioritizing development efforts.

Tabs-by-user WOULD be nice, Corey.

Today I work around that by grouping "power users" (for example) in one group, and all others in another.  Then on the special dashboards I pop out a giant sheet that covers the whole thing if the user is not in the power user group.  Sheet says, "You don't have access to this dashboard.  Click here to return to the main dashboard."  And a SELECT action on that sheet that goes back to MAIN.  That's all they can do there.  If user is a power user, the sheet doesn't pop out, and they have access to the dashboard.  Likewise I hide/display any action navigation buttons to those dashboards accordingly.

Great to hear I'm not the only one doing that sort of stuff...   Seems like there should be an easier way, as I hate to add complexity when workbooks are already slow, and when it makes maintenance tedious.

I'm curious what a use case of this would look like. How would you need the "same" calculation to perform contextually differently?

Hi Phil and team. I have a dashboard that gives our business users some summaries of a big dataset. We have other colleagues who need access to the raw data, which we have placed on an Alteryx Gallery.

I have embedded the Alteryx Gallery web page in my dashboard, and can interact with it no problem. The issue I am having is that the Alteryx Gallery generates an Excel file output. When I click this generated Excel file from within the Tableau webpage object on my dash, (i'd want it to open in Excel), I get taken to the Alteryx Gallery with a rather unfriendly error message

"{"data":null,"exceptionName":"UnknownException","innerExceptionMessage":"","message":"Unknown error.\u000aStructureMapException\u000aRequestID: 96008c18eeeb419195f3050d1a34fad8"}"

Does Tableau allow downloads via embeded webpages and this is Alteryx issue, or does Tableau webpage object not allow downloads by design?

Thanks in advance,

Joe

Off the top of my head, Vincent ...

On <this dashboard> use <this parameter> for calculations, and on <that dashboard> use <that parameter> for calculations.

Don't know if this was said or not, TL;DR all the posts. But literally working on a dashboard right now and thought:

- I would really like to make color legends vertical (especially Diverging/Color Scale Legends)

Best,

--Matt

Phil Naranjo,

One more thing regarding pixel perfection....

Tooltips have some funny behavior when the tooltip is larger than the frame it sits in. They tend to flash when moving the mouse. I've only noticed this when the browser window is small or a viz is embedded in a web page. I created a support case regarding this, but figured I'd also mention it here. Attached is a reproduction of two different example, the first using a small browser and the second using Tableau own embedded "Top Ideas" viz in the community.