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Thu 21 Sep 2023 | Charles Yi
Starter Guide to Tableau Containers
Tableau containers are objects that let you group related dashboard items together so you can quickly position them.  Containers can be extremely helpful in dashboard design and layout if used properly. In this post, I'll walk through the basics of containers and share some tips (don't use tiles!)
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Mon 26 Jun 2023 | Tabitha Diaz
Tableau Containers
Until a few weeks ago, I never used containers to build a dashboard. I would spend hours working on one dashboard with multiple floating parts. At the time it was fun until the dashboard needed to be switched around or the sizing changed
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Mon 26 Jun 2023 | Nitesh Shrestha
Tableau Containers: Understanding the concepts
Have you ever faced challenges in positioning your charts in Tableau as per your desired layout? I can certainly relate to that struggle, and I used to assume that using floating charts was the only solution for good design, which is not true
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Wed 21 Jun 2023 | Vivian Ng
Breaching Containment
DSNY4 just started training, and that got me thinking back to my application viz on HIPAA breaches, which I’ve been meaning to go back to, so that I can implement some things I learned during my own training
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Mon 23 Jan 2023 | Elaine Yuan
Containers 102: Layout Pane
Hi, I hope you’re here from my blog post about horizontal and vertical containers. If not, you can find that post here. In any case, I want to enrich my guide to Tableau containers by reviewing the Layout pane in the sidebar
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Thu 29 Dec 2022 | Elaine Yuan
Containers 101: Horizontal and Vertical Containers
I wish I knew about layout containers sooner to organize my dashboards. It’s embarrassing to admit, but I used a translucent ruler in designing my first application visualization
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