Mastering Containers in Tableau

The Workout Wednesday 2020 Week 53 challenge required extensive knowledge of containers in Tableau. They can be quite the mystery to some. It's taken me years to grasp them.

In this webinar, I'll show you what I've learned, how to complete the Workout Wednesday challenge, and how you can master containers.

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[udayabanunagarajan]

omg!!! This is amaazing!! Really learnt a lot about containers today.. was so confused with the layout and containers till date. Got a better picture today. U have covered all details.. So happy to replicate this! Thank u so much Andy!

[tald]

Hi Andy, Thanks for another very informative video. I loved the trick of adding the first container as floating, thus eliminating the clutter which occurs after adding more and more elements into the dashboard. This makes it much neater and easy to navigate.

[chirayuvyas]

Thanks Andy for this amazing videos. I am new in Tableau and learning a lot from your videos.

[nicolelily]

This was incredibly helpful. I was asked to create a dashboard with 12 boxes with a title and subtitle each for work and was pulling my hair out! Now I have a plan for how to go about it. Thank you!

[adifull]

I loved the attention to detail and really learn a lot about containers and their importance.

[jinsonfernandez]

Andy this is one of the best I have seen so far wrt containers....keep up the good work

[ItsMehras]

No more 'Height must be greater than the total top and bottom margins' error message. Thank you, Andy!

[wendyware]

Definitely need to watch this one again. Containers are my nemesis!

[cococnk]

Second time watching this video beginning to understand containers. Thanks Sir

[od]

Thanks, the shift and drag is exactly what I was looking for

[leeyates]

Thank you so much Andy, helpful as always!

[anirbanaws]

Hey Andy. At about 3:50, you add a Blank container and say "it acts like a holding place for me". Why? Isn't that already the job of the first vertical container we added to hold everything in place?

[pqpq]

Looking at this solution reminds me of my annoyance at how Tableau forces me to duplicate worksheets to achieve a specific design objective when I could achieve the same functionality with small multiples of dimensions. Using small multiples helps guarantee consistency between dimensions, but is quite limiting in terms of design and formatting. How do you decide between a small multiples of dimensions solutions versus this worksheet-duplicating approach in your projects? Thank you

[malcorub]

Cards are way easier to do in Power BI...but my new team uses Tableau and not Power BI so these videos are really helpful.

[LuisMunoz-pinc]

Hi Andy, This video was amazing !! I was looking to learn how to create containers and the videos gave enough info. I have a question regarding the Date Field. I want to make it interactive and I'm wondering if I need to create a separate sheet to add a date field on this dashboard so I can toggle back and forth to different date values? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

[puneethmohana]

Andy you are doing a great job. Specially I am learning a lot from #Makeovermonday and your viz live stream. On top of that I am getting to learn additional things with your new tips. I would really like to thank you a lot.

[LovelyJordy]

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. Just found your channel. Can I follow this with the Tableau Public version?

[huytruong]

Hi Andy. I'm not sure if I found a bug. When I drag in the floating vertical container and set its size to 1200 x 800 before setting the size of my dashboard, then my KPI sheet gets cut out at the Average Discount -- it's still there but I can't see it even if I change the dashboard size or go into the Presentation Mode. However, if I set the size of my dashboard to 1200 x 800 and then dragging the floating vertical container and set its size to 1200 x 800, then I don't see the KPIs sheet gets cut out. In summary, I think we must set the dashboard size first, before doing anything else to avoid the problem.

[michaelh]

ugh this is so confusing. it looks easy in theory but I'm having a hard time following the container portion. do you give private lessons?

[mohanr]

Hi Andy!! Your videos are great assets for my learning. I request one video on topic to create mobile layout from the default layout. I'm working on this but I'm facing a lot of issues. If you do a video, it'd help a lot. Thanks in Advance!!