Tableau Desktop and Web Authoring Help

In addition to the standard formatting, there are some other settings that define the table structure. You can modify these settings by selecting Analysis > Table Layout > Advanced to open the Table Options dialog box. There you can specify the aspect ratio, the default number format, row and column attributes, and the default label orientation for labels along the bottom of the view. While these settings apply to the whole view, some can be overridden using the Format pane.

Set the aspect ratio

The aspect ratio refers to the ratio of the pane width to the pane height. You can choose to constrain the aspect ratio to a specified amount or not constrain it at all. An unconstrained axis range can be useful because it means that the axes don’t have to be the same length.

Anytime you manually resize a row or column, you are unconstraining the aspect ratio. The aspect ratio setting only applies to views containing continuous axes on both the row and column shelves. Nominative axes are not affected by the aspect ratio settings.

Set the default number format

You can define the number of decimal places to appear by default for numbers in the view. If you select Automatic, Tableau automatically decides the number of decimal places based on the data in the field. If you select Manual, you can decide to show up to 16 decimal places.

Set row attributes

Select from the following row attributes:

• Maximum levels of row labels: determines the number of fields that can be added to the Rows shelf before the headers are combined on the same level.

  

  For example, if you set Maximum levels of row labels to 3 and place 5 discrete fields on the Rows shelf, then the first, second, and third row headers will appear in the same header, separated by commas (they will be combined at the same header level).

  

  In this example, Customer Name, Region, State, City, and Postal Code are the 5 discrete fields on the Rows shelf. Maximum levels of row labels is set to 3. In the resulting view, Customer Name is combined with Region and State in the first column.

• Maximum levels of horizontal row labels: determines the number of fields that can be placed on the Rows shelf before headers are automatically oriented vertically rather than horizontally when the table doesn’t fit the view.

Set column attributes

Select from the following column attributes:

• Maximum levels of column labels: determines the number of fields that can be placed on the Columns shelf before Tableau begins to combine the labels. For example, if you set Maximum levels of column labels to 8 and place 9 discrete fields on the Columns shelf, then the first and second column headers will appear in the same header, separated by a comma (they will be combined at the same header level).

• Show innermost level at bottom of view when there is a vertical axis: displays the innermost level of column headers at the bottom of the view (as opposed to the top) when a vertical axis is added to the view.

• Default orientation of labels at bottom of view: determines whether labels at the bottom of the view are oriented horizontally or vertically by default. You can toggle between the horizontal and vertical options by pressing Ctrl + L on your keyboard (Command-L on a Mac).