Actions
Add context and interactivity to your data using actions. Users interact with your visualisations by selecting or hovering over marks, or selecting a link in a tooltip menu, and the actions you set up can respond with navigation and changes in the view.
For example, in a dashboard showing home sales by neighbourhood, you could use actions to display relevant information for a selected neighbourhood. Selecting a neighborhood in one view can trigger an action that highlights the related houses in a map view, filters a list of the houses sold, then opens an external web page showing census data for the neighbourhood. For related information and examples, see A Rough Guide to Dashboard Actions(Link opens in a new window) on the Tableau Public blog.
Types of actions
There are several types of actions, each with a different purpose:
- Filter. Use the data from one view to filter data in another.
- Highlight. Call attention to marks of interest by dimming all others.
- Go to URL. Create hyperlinks to external resources, such as a web page or file.
- Go to Sheet. Simplify navigation to other worksheets, dashboards or stories in the same workbook.
- Change Parameter. Let users change parameter values by directly interacting with marks on a viz.
- Change Set Values. Let users change the values in a set by directly interacting with marks on a viz.
Order of operations
Actions are executed by Tableau in a specific order:
- Parameter
- Set
- Filter
- Go to sheet
- Highlight
- Go to URL
Within each type, actions are performed in alphabetical order. That is, if there are two filter actions, filter action "A Filter Action" is performed before "This is a Filter".