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When moving mark labels, should have option for an arrow (like Annotate Mark has)

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:40:32 GMT

If I have labels on a line graph, and I move the labels because they are bunched together, there is no way to know which label goes with which line. I would like the option to select whether I want an arrow to appear when I move a label. This would work exactly the same as Annotate Mark does, except just when labels are moved.

When I move a mark label, can I make an arrow appear like annotate mark does?

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:42:58 GMT

I have a line graph where the lines are bunched together. I still need to label the end of each line, even though they are bunched, and a simple color legend won't do the trick. I have my labels marked to label only the end of my line. When I move the labels to a space where you can read them, you can no longer tell which label goes to which line. Is there a way to add an arrow that points from the label to the end point of the line? This would be VERY similar to an annotation mark, I just don't want to have to manually make an annotation for each line (there are a lot of lines...).

Any ideas?

Thanks

Separating groups of bars and switching x axis label to the bottom

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:56:56 GMT

See attached image for what I currently have:

Basically, Vintage is a group of items based on when the item was created, so we have items created from 2006 through the present. Each color represents a time related snapshot of the data, in this case, the last three months. Here is an example of how this would be read: "Items originating in 2008 had dropped slightly from Feb to Mar, but spiked slightly in April.

What I need to do is space out the groups of bars so that the three months in each vintage are close together, but there is space between each vintage. I tried to increase the width of the column dividers as you can see, but it didn't do anything helpful. Is there a way to add this spacing?

Secondly, since I have two Dimensions in the Columns section, it puts my Vintage labels at the top of the graph and the Snapshotdate labels at the bottom. I hid the snapshot date labels, but I really need to switch the vintage labels from the top to the bottom. Is there a way to do this either?

Thanks