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sorting tablular data

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Sun, 22 May 2016 10:52:34 GMT

I'm struggling with sorting in a tabular environment...

I can right click on a column and choose sort ascending or descending, but nothing seems to happen.

I can get sorts to work by right clicking on another column then choosing sort by my desired column - but this seems rather backwards.

What am I missing about sorting in tableau's text/table view?

Brad

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:55:02 GMT

I'd like to connect to a hot standy of my postgres database to unload the master a bit.

Unfortunately, tableau is using some fancy temp table stuff that you can't do on a read-only database.

2013-07-02 19:09:34 EDT LOG: streaming replication successfully connected to primary

2013-07-02 19:09:34 EDT LOG: incomplete startup packet

2013-07-02 19:10:22 EDT ERROR: cannot execute SELECT INTO in a read-only transaction

2013-07-02 19:10:22 EDT STATEMENT: -- statement does not return rows

SELECT *

INTO TEMPORARY TABLE "#Tableau_1_Connect"

FROM (SELECT 1 AS COL) AS CHECKTEMP

LIMIT 1

2013-07-02 19:10:22 EDT ERROR: cannot execute DROP TABLE in a read-only transaction

2013-07-02 19:10:22 EDT STATEMENT: DROP TABLE "#Tableau_1_Connect"

2013-07-02 19:10:22 EDT ERROR: cannot execute CREATE TABLE in a read-only transaction

2013-07-02 19:10:22 EDT STATEMENT: CREATE LOCAL TEMPORARY TABLE "#Tableau_2_Connect" (

"COL" INTEGER

) ON COMMIT PRESERVE ROWS

2013-07-02 19:10:22 EDT ERROR: cannot execute DROP TABLE in a read-only transaction

2013-07-02 19:10:22 EDT STATEMENT: DROP TABLE "#Tableau_2_Connect"

Any suggestions?

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 20:49:48 GMT

e.g.

I have a list of genes and their levels for each of a few conditions

How can i correlate the abundnance by gene between condition A and condition B?

I can do this if i add abundance columns for all the various conditions, but that's annoying.

Thanks!

brad

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:49:51 GMT

I'm having a problem where the label's font is italic in the user interface, but it not italic in the PDF export...

Any suggestions?

Brad