How to Create a Dashboard in Tableau

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

For this create a Tableau Dashboard demo, we use the below worksheet. It has a Pie Chart, Bar Chart, Dual Combination Chart, Bubble Chart, and Map.

Available Sheets 1

Create a Dashboard in Tableau

Please click on the New tab to create a Dashboard.

Click on the New tab 2

Now you can see the Tableau dashboard.

  1. Device Preview: Use this button to create a View for Phones, desktops, and tablets.
  2. Size: To adjust the display size.
  3. Sheets: List of Sheets that are available to create this.
  4. Objects: Predefined objects that you can use in it.
  5. Name: Right-click and select the Rename Sheet option to rename this.
  6. It is the actual work area.
Interface to Create 3

Hover over any sheet to see the preview, and clicking the marked button will take you to the original. Please refer to Pie Chart, Bar Chart, Dual Combination, Bubble, Map, and Data Labels in Reports in Tableau.

Add Pie Chart 4

Let me Drag the Pie Chart.

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

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Now you can see two Sheets inside our dashboard.

Add Bar Chart 7

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

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Rearrange Sheets

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

Rearrange Sheets 9

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

Adjust Reports 10

Delete Sheet from Tableau Dashboard

Please select the Sheet that you want to delete. Next, click the Close button.

Delete Sheet from Dashboard 11

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

Remove Sheet from Dashboard in Tableau 12

Either way, it will remove the selected one from it. As you can see, there is no Pie Chart.

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