How to Create a Dashboard in Tableau

Tableau Dashboard is a View that will display a collection of several worksheets. You can use single dashboard to analyze the entire Business. In this article we will show you, How to create a Dashboard in tableau with example.

For this we are going to use below worksheet. If you observe closely, it has a Pie Chart, Bar Chart, Dual Combination Chart, Bubble Chart, and Map. And, please visit Data Labels in Tableau Reports article to understand the Data Source.

Create a Dashboard in Tableau

Pleas click on the New Dashboard tab to create a Tableau Dashboard.

Now you can see the dashboard.

1. Device Preview: Use this button to create a View for Phone, Desktop, and Tablet.
2. Size: Use this property to adjust the dashboard display size.
3. Sheets: List of Sheet that are available to create this dashboard.
4. Objects: Predefined Tableau dashboard object that you can use in your dashboard.
5. Name of the Dashboard. Right-click and select Rename Sheet option context menu to rename the dashboard.
6. This is the actual work area.

Hover over any sheet to see the sheet preview, and by clicking the marked button will take you to the original sheet.

Let me Drag and Drop Pie Chart to the dashboard.

Next, let me add Bar Chart to the dashboard. From the below screenshot you can see that, if you are dragging something to the dashboard it will ask the location. I mean Top Right, Top Left, Bottom right etc

Now you can see two Sheets inside our dashboard.

Let me add the Dual Combination Sheet and Bubble Chart as well.

Rearrange Sheets in Tableau Dashboard

To rearrange the Sheets in dashboard, Please select the Sheet that you want to change the location and use the marked field.

To demonstrate the same, we placed the Dual Combination sheet at the bottom of the dashboard.

Delete Sheet from Tableau Dashboard

Please select the Sheet that you want to delete from the dashboard and click the Close button as we shown below.

Or click on the Down arrow and select the Remove from Dashboard option from drop down menu.

Either ways it will remove the selected sheet from the dashboard. From the below screenshot you can see that, there is no Pie Chart in our dashboard

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