Hello,
I am a PhD Student and Researcher at the DVC lab at Purdue University.

We are working on a research study investigating how data visualization practitioners work in real-world settings.

The study is remote, spans several weeks (~4–5 total hours), and offers $150 compensation upon full completion. The study is funded by the National Science Foundation (Award 2146228) and approved by the Purdue University IRB (protocol 2022-1273).

Participation involves:

1. Phase 1 – Design Challenge (~90 min): A visualization design activity based on an open-ended dataset and prompt, where you'll share your thought process as you work.
2. Phase 2 – Diary Study (~15 min/week for 6–8 weeks): Brief weekly reflections on your ongoing visualization work, completed at your convenience.
3. Phase 3 – Interview (~90 min): A remote follow-up conversation to discuss your experiences and reflections.

Eligibility: early-career professionals in data visualization roles; ages 18–65; fluent in English.

Complete the eligibility survey: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_abJ1mOKXuEq9cBo or please reach out to us if you are interested and we can talk more.

Here’s some background information on our group’s related research: https://www.dvclab.net/research/projects/career/
Thank you!

I can confirm that a dashboard was working days ago, no changes, and now is having an issue.

Published on Tableau Public, navigation buttons are opening to the bottom of the clicked navigation dashboard. Happens 100% of the time.

Was not happening days ago.

Been using Tableau for about a year. Designing my first large-scale dashboard with several tables >5m rows on average.

Refreshing the data takes 30mins, fair enough.

Every edit to the sheets results in a 3min reload. I turn off auto refresh. Make a couple of changes, 3min reload. I change sheet, 3min reload.

This feels unacceptable, it absolutely tanks my productivity.

Is this something I just need to get used to or is there a simple way to work on a lightweight extract and then use the full data source once published?

I must start by saying that I don’t personally have access to Tableau and don’t know how to use it… I am a web developer and my primary focus is web accessibility. I have a client who uses Tableau for data visualizations and they need to add a simple, WCAG-conforming link as the first element in the focus order. It needs to be reachable via keyboard and only require a single enter key click to open. Their current implementation requires three tab stops to get to the button, pressing enter three times, which announces three different messages to screen readers, and then spacebar in order to finally open the link. There’s no role defined in that tags.

I’ve read through Tableau documentation and watched videos about URL actions but without having access to the software, I can’t test anything out.

Ideally, just a simple hyperlink with descriptive link text and explicit role tags for screen readers, and first element in the focus order is what we need. If this isn’t possible, we need to figure out a different solution.

I’m working on my Tableau Public portfolio and want to make it stand out. Right now I have a few dashboards using public datasets, but I’m not sure if that’s enough.

For those who got a job with Tableau:
-What kind of projects did you include?
-How many dashboards did you have?
-Did recruiters or hiring managers actually look at it?

Would love to hear your tips, or even see your portfolio links for inspiration.

Hello everyone-
I am in my late 20s and have 3yrs of experience with Tableau, SQL, some dba work, powershell, gcp, and power bi.
I work at a huge corporate where I take care majority of the analytical dashboards and reporting.
I have experience with cloud migration etc as well.
Started as an intern and am a senior analyst .

I have been applying for remote roles in CANADA.
With zero luck.

I have Bsc Comp Sci and Business minor.

Is the job market for remote tableau just competitive? Is it impossible now? Or do I simply need more experience?
Any advice or help would be appreciated:)

Can we embed webpage based on link available in field of data?

I'm using Tableau public for an online bootcamp project, and last time I opened the workbook it worked completely fine. However after a week or so of not touching it, I opened it again to continue my work, and found that it was giving me the error ab9d5a55

I clicked on something (it was something about removal) and my workbook seemed to go back to normal so I saved it, but now I can open it and get the error 3c242d89 instead. I know that somehow I got rid of an extract but I have no idea how to restore it back to how it was and fear I just made a bigger mess for myself. I think I have to make a new extract but idk how to do that while also keeping my previous work

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The last time I used Tableau was a few years ago during my internship where I made visualizations on monthly time series data spanning a few years. The problem is I dealt with classified data, so I no longer have access to the data or the viz, and after all this time I've forgotten the actual capabilities of Tableau (not just for its dashboards, I mean moreso how it could update the dashboard automatically with new excel files, things like that).

I don't know where to get such huge datasets to play around with and coming up with an objective for the dashboard, so I'd appreciate if someone has an idea, kind of like how a data scientist could start off with one of the kaggle problems and work on predictions.

Anyone else having trouble downloading Tableau Public from the official website? The download wasn't working for us, so here's the direct installer link on Tableau's own domain for 2026.3.0 (Windows 64-bit):

https://downloads.tableau.com/public/TableauPublicDesktop-64bit-2026-3-0.exe

It's a large file (around 600 MB), so give it a few minutes.

Before you run it, check the signature. Right-click the file > Properties > Digital Signatures and confirm the signer is Salesforce, Inc., or run this in PowerShell:

Get-AuthenticodeSignature "C:\path\to\TableauPublicDesktop-64bit-2026-3-0.exe"

The status should say Valid.

Windows only. If you're on Mac, or the link doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll try to help.

El limite de descargas de Tableau Next dice que es un maximo de 5000. Pero tengo usuarios que no superan las 700 filas cuando deberia descargar mucho mas. Alguien sabe como extender la descarga o porque sucede esto?

I am posting my problem again, but I am including a lot more detail. I have published a multi-tab dashboard. When I click on the navigation button to go to a different dashboard tab, it opens the new tab at the bottom of the page rather than having the view centered at the top. It did not behave like this before. This new behavior cropped up only recently, and I have been publishing versions of the dashboard for months. I did update it with new data recently. Additionally, now all my previously published older versions of the dashboard are behaving like this as well, despite the fact that they have not been updated or republished in months.  

I have tried the following: 

1. I checked that the URL action at the bottom of the page might have been focusing the view, but even after removing it or publishing the older versions of the Tableau Desktop files that don't have the action, they still have the auto-scrolling problem. Same thing if I just hide the worksheet with the URL action. I also tried renaming the URL action to come alphabetically first, as suggested by ChatGPT.

2. I have also checked to see if any containers in my dashboard were overflowing, but I could not find any. I can also see blank space at the bottom of my outer container, so nothing was overflowing.  

3. Three of my four dashboard tabs are the same size; the fourth is smaller. The fourth dashboard auto-scrolls to show a bunch of white space under the Tableau toolbar. When I increased the fourth dashboard size to be the same as the other three, the problem persists.  The three that are the same size are 1485 pixels in height. 

4. I have also had someone else publish the same dashboard using the same file on his computer, but that did not fix the issue.  

5. I tried opening the dashboard in an incognito window.  

6. I tried republishing older, unupdated versions of the dashboard from old Tableau Desktop files that had not been updated in months. The problem persists.  

7. I also deleted my internet cache and search history. I published in a different browser too.  

8. I also tried moving the Tableau toolbar to the top when the dashboard was published, and that did not work 100% of the time.

None of it worked. The fact that all my previously published dashboards are affected makes me wonder if it was a web browser issue. But the fact that someone else reproduced the error by publishing the dashboard from his computer makes me think its a Tableau Desktop issue. 

This is the embed code for the dashboard. Is there anything in it that makes it scroll to the bottom?

<div class='tableauPlaceholder' id='viz1792536202621' style='position: relative'><noscript><a href='#'><img alt='Labor Market Review ' src='

DashboardLink style='border: none' /></a></noscript><object class='tableauViz'  style='display:none;'><param name='host_url' value='https%3A%2F%[2Fpublic.tableau.com](https://2fpublic.tableau.com/)%2F' /> <param name='embed_code_version' value='3' /> <param name='site_root' value='' /><param name='name' value='DashboardName/DashboardTab1' /><param name='tabs' value='no' /><param name='toolbar' value='yes' /><param name='static_image' value='[https://public.tableau.com/static/images/DashboardName;DashboardTab1/1.png](https://public.tableau.com/static/images/DashboardName;DashboardTab1/1.png)' /> <param name='animate_transition' value='yes' /><param name='display_static_image' value='yes' /><param name='display_spinner' value='yes' /><param name='display_overlay' value='yes' /><param name='display_count' value='yes' /><param name='language' value='en-US' /></object></div>                <script type='text/javascript'>                    var divElement = document.getElementById('viz1792536202621');                    var vizElement = divElement.getElementsByTagName('object')[0];                    if ( divElement.offsetWidth > 800 ) { vizElement.style.width='1024px';vizElement.style.height='1512px';} else if ( divElement.offsetWidth > 500 ) { vizElement.style.width='1024px';vizElement.style.height='1512px';} else { vizElement.style.width='100%';vizElement.style.height='4127px';}                     var scriptElement = document.createElement('script');                    scriptElement.src = 'https://public.tableau.com/javascripts/api/viz_v1.js

';                    vizElement.parentNode.insertBefore(scriptElement, vizElement);                </script> 

I have replaced the names for the dashboard tabs and the overall name. My default browser is Chrome.

How do I get the navigation button to open the other dashboard tab at the top of the page rather than auto-scrolling to the bottom? 

Cant use the dropdown menu to edit the body. It stays the same size and i dont know how to change it

I have a dashboard that is opening correctly on my web browser but when I click to go to a different tab it opens at the bottom of the new tab rather than the top. it is a long dashboard with two url actions at the bottom. I updated it recently with new data. But there isn’t a larger number of rows now than before. the worksheets that house the links are set to ’entire view’. I made sure to name the url actions so they come alphabetically first in case tableau is focused on them. The urls aren’t working currently but that is being fixed. They are working in an earlier version of dashboard But that is a separate issue outside tableau. The dashboard itself is at a fixed height.

Additionally this problem also happens when I open the older versions of the dashboard. It wasn’t happening before

How do I fix it so that clicking on a navigation button opens the page at the top instead of the bottom?

I have a dashboard that is opening correctly on my web browser but when I click to go to a different tab it auto scrolls to the bottom. it is a long dashboard with two url actions at the bottom. I updated it recently with new data. the worksheets that house the links are set to ’entire view’. I made sure to name the url actions so they come alphabetically first in case tableak is focused on them. The dashboard itself is at a fixed height.

Additionally this problem also happens when I open the older versions of the dashboard.

How do I fix it so that clicking on a navigation button opens the page at the top instead of the bottom?

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Solution: Data Engineers created a new feed with one premium for per policy. So the LoD is out of the picture.

Thanks for your inputs. Cheers!

I have an insurance policy data feed in Tableau. Each policy can have multiple benefits, but the feed contains only the total annual premium at the policy level, repeated across every benefit row. This inflates the total premium when using SUM([Annual Premium]).

What I have tried

I created the following FIXED LOD calculation to return the annual premium at the policy level:

{ FIXED [PolicyNumber] : MIN([Annual Premium]) }

This works as expected and returns the correct premium for each policy.

The problem

I need to use this calculated LOD field in a blended worksheet. The data source containing the LOD calculation is the secondary data source.

When I add the LOD field to the worksheet, the measure turns red and Tableau displays this error:

"Cannot blend the secondary data source because one or more fields use an unsupported aggregation."

I am using Tableau Cloud.

Alternative solution I am considering

I could publish a separate data source containing premiums at the benefit level, aggregate the benefit premiums to the policy level, and create another data blend between the existing policy data feed and this new data source.

Questions for the Tableau community

1. Is there a way to use a FIXED LOD calculation from a secondary data source in a blend without triggering this error?
2. Would my alternative approach work, or could it introduce other blending or aggregation issues?
3. Are there better alternatives in Tableau Cloud, such as relationships, joins, data source changes, or pre-aggregating the data, that would solve this without inflating the premium totals?

I would appreciate suggestions on the most reliable and maintainable approach. Many thanks for your support!

Have a good week ahead. Cheers.

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So we have a RLS calculated field (ie. ISMEMBEROF) and use this calc field as a data source filter in our data sources. We then publish this data source in Cloud, but what happens is that instead of staying as a calculated field, the RLS field turns into a database column and gets materialized in the data source when connecting to it live. This defeats the purpose of adding the RLS field data source filter.

The current behavior is that whoever publishes the data, the calc result gets baked into the published data source. So the RLS field becomes a static "True" value instead of dynamically adjusting to each user's group in Cloud. This does not happen in other calculated fields that don't use RLS functions.

Here's a similiar issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/tableau/s/9b918VKfkU

Anyone encountering this issue today and if there's any other solution? We're using this data source for Pulse metrics, so it's essential that it works while connecting to the published data source live/extract.

Hello friends, I have now worked enough with 3 different viz extensions (2 produced by Tableau and 1 by Infotopics) and none of them have allowed custom color pallettes in the extension. One of them gave no color options at all (even though there is Marks card for Color) and just defaulted to Tableau 10, and one of them showed me the pallette list, but it did not include my custom palletes.

Is this a restriction of all the viz extensions, or just "we haven't gotten to that yet" by the developers of the extensions.

We are embedding our tableau public dashboards in our web pages. We are trying to use " <param name='showShareOptions' value='false' />" to hide the "share" button . Even after adding this option , the dashboards shows the "share" in the toolbar.  We don't want to hide the entire toolbar ; we would like to hide the "share" button only . 

Hello Everyone,

This morning I noticed a new behavior in filter selection and I wanted to check if this was common to other people / if someone had found a fix. I'll try to make myself clear.

When I have a long list of values in a filter - let's imagine countries - and that I select one of them and apply the filter, if I then want to select another, I used to click on "All" then click on it again to clear the filter and then look for the next country I want to filter on. This used to work fine. Now when I do this, the search automatically selects all search results with the previously selected country unticked.

So let's imagine I used to have filter values AA, AB, AC, AD and had filtered on AA, if I search "A" I will see AB, AC, AD selected and AA unselected which is very odd, forcing me to either manually select the desired value or to use the apply button when unselecting all so that the filter "resets".

Did anyone else notice something similar ? I checked on Desktop and the issue doesn't happen, only on Server/Cloud

Edit : After discussion with Tableau Support, they have an open issue here. If you click on Report it will help prioritize the fix