How to Zoom into a Scatterplot in Tableau Using Set Actions

It's not exactly a standard feature but we're going to use set actions to allow the user to zoom into the scatter plot. In this example I have a scatter plot by sales and profit and if I select some marks I zoom into just those marks if I unselect I get back to my original view.

I'm going to use set actions to add a zoom in feature. I'm going to create a calculated field since I don't have any dimensions in this view I have just aggregate measures. I need to create a calculated field to concatenate both of my measures. I'm going to call this Zoom we're going to concatenate string version of sales and the string version of profit. This is going to give us a unique dimension for each Circle.

Bring zoom into the view and put it on detail. It doesn't do anything because we were already at that level of detail. Now I want to create a set so I'm going to click the drop down on Zoom and create set

I want to use all and click ok. If I add Zoom set to rows so in or out yes or no all circles are in the set right now. I'm going to add a worksheet action worksheet action I'm going to add a set action. Add action change set values let's just call this Zoom.

I want to affect the set Zoom. I want to assign the values to the set and add all values to the set when I click on The View. Now when I select marks it zooms and shows only those marks and you'll see these are in these are out.

I'm going to unselect everything is in you'll notice that the axes didn't adjust. I'm going to right click each axis click edit axis. I want it to be independent axes for each row or column in the data. on sales edit axis I want it to be independent axis for each row in the data.

Now let's generate our action Again by selecting some circles and let's right click on out and hide so we have just in values. I grab my circles again I should zoom in to just that area and you can take the in out Zoom. Unshow the header and that's how you zoom into a scatter plot in Tableau.

[YiliWenAngel]

thanks for your tutorial!!! can I ask how can I add this to dashboard? because when I put it in dashboard, the zoom in function mot working :(