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Slow Filter Selection

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:10:32 GMT

I am using Tableau Desktop on a 32 bit machine and currently upload an MS Access table that consistes of approximately a million rows of data. This is not a live link. I export a packaged workbook after importing the data. I use 11 quick filters that show up on the first dashboard. These filters are applied to 19 dashboards. Checking a single box on any filter takes approximately 15 seconds. Every month about 250,000 rows are appended to the one MS Access table which is then uploaded into the Tableau file by refreshing the Extract. This slows down the filter selection even more. Does anyone have any ideas on how to speed up the filter selection? Would it be worth my while to put the file in a WEB brower and use Tableau Server instead?

Thank you.

Sarah

show maximum month in a data set

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:57:02 GMT

Hi, if I have a data set which shows values by month. Depending on the chosen filter the number of months that are displayed are varied, but I always want to show the last month of the year that has data and hide all the other months. How do I do this?

Example 1

January February March April

23 45 22 3

I would only want to display

April

Example 2

January February

23 45

I would only want to display

February

Thank you.

Sarah

Align column differently from other columns

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:03:39 GMT

How can I align one column differently from all other columns?

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header over multiple columns

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:00:46 GMT

I have 6 numeric calculated columns on my worksheet with 6 headers. I want to be able to place a header above the 1st 4 column headers and another header over the last 2 column headers. Any suggestions?

Thank you.

Blank Column

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:27:26 GMT

How can I insert a blank column in between to columns of calculated data?

Thank you.