Filters in Tableau Dashboard

In this article we will show you, How to create Filters in Tableau Dashboard with an example. For this we are going to use below shown dashboard. This is the dashboard that we created in our previous article. So, please refer Tableau Dashboard article to under the same.

Create Filters in Tableau Dashboard

There are multiple ways to create filters on Tableau Dashboard

Filters in Tableau Dashboard – First approach

We can use a dashboard item (Sheet or Chart) as the Filter in tableau. To demonstrate the same we are going to use Pie Chart as a filter to this dashboard. To apply the same, Please select the Pie Chart and click the Use as Filter button as we shown below.

Or click on the Down arrow and select the Use as Filter option from drop down menu.

Either ways it will convert Pie chart as a Filter. From the below screenshot you can observe that, when I was selecting United States, data in all the other charts are formatted. I mean they are displaying data that belongs to United States

Let me try Germany as well

Remove Filters in Tableau Dashboard

To remove this filter, either you can select the Filter button or you can uncheck the Use as Filter option from drop down menu as we shown below. Let me remove it

Now you see, there is no impact on dashboard sheets even I selected Australia from Pie Chart

Filters in Tableau Dashboard – Second approach

We can also apply filters on individual item (Sheet or Chart) in a dashboard. Again we are using Pie Chart for demonstration. To apply the same, select Filters and then select Country name or whatever field you are interested in.

Now you see the Filter on the right-side of a dashboard

Let me uncheck few countries. From the below screenshot you can see, Filters are applying only to Pie Chart, and all the remaining charts are unaffected.

You can also covert this into complete worksheet filter. To do so, select filter and click on the down arrow to open the drop down menu. Please select Apply to Worksheets and then select Selected Worksheets.. option

This will open Apply Filter to Worksheets window. Please select the Sheets that you want to apply.

Let me uncheck few countries. From the below screenshot you can see, Filters are applying to all the existing charts.

Filters in Tableau Dashboard – Third approach

Instead of apply filter on dashboard, We can use the filters that we created in individual worksheet. Let me create a Filter on pie Chart. please refer Filters Introduction article to understand the concept.

and you can see the impact on complete dashboard.

Let me open another dashboard that we created in our previous article. You can see from the below screenshot, same filter is affecting this dashboard as well.

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