Tableau Desktop and Web Authoring Help

Tableau Desktop and Web Authoring Help

Get Started

• Release notes
• Build a basic view
• Tutorial: Get started with Tableau Desktop(Link opens in a new window)
• Choose the right chart type for your data
• Workbook performance checklist
• more

Connect and Prepare Data

• Connect to your data
• Plan your data source
• Tips for working with your data
• Relate your data
• Customise fields in the Data pane
• more

Use Tableau on the Web

• Authoring on the web vs desktop
• Get started with web authoring
• Tour your Tableau site
• Send data-driven alerts
• Use custom views
• more

Build Visualisations

• Build views from scratch
• Customise data fields in the Data pane
• Add visual detail
• Add interactivity using actions
• more

Explore and Find Insights

• Explore and inspect data in a view
• Automatically build views with Ask Data
• Inspect a view with Explain Data
• View underlying data
• more

Analyse Your Data

• Create custom fields using calculations
• Use functions
• Spot trends
• Transform values with table calculations
• more

Maps and Geographics Data

• Get started with mapping
• Build a simple map
• Mapping concepts
• Customise map appearance
• more

Present Dashboards and Stories

• Format your work
• Create dashboards
• Visual best practices
• Create stories
• more

Publish, Share and Collaborate

• Publish data sources and workbooks
• Save and export
• Share web views
• Data-driven alerts
• more