Navigate Data Sources in the Data Pane

Applies to: Tableau Desktop

The top of the Data pane lists all of the data sources in a given workbook. Click the data source you want to use to select it. The Data pane updates to show the corresponding fields in that data source.

The Data pane displaying the list of all data sources in the workbook.

For details on finding fields in the Data pane, see Find fields.

You can resize the data source list area in the Data pane to save space. When you resize to a limited vertical height, you can scroll down to a data source.

The Data pane displaying a data source with an extract icon.

Each data source has an icon to indicate its type. For example, the icon can indicate whether the data source is relational, cube (multidimensional) or an extract. In Tableau, cube data sources are supported only in Windows.

The Data pane highlighting icons to indicate whether a data source is relational, cube (multidimensional) or an extract.

You can right-click (control-click on a Mac) the data source to access the commands that are on the Data menu. For example, you can right-click (control-click on a Mac) a data source and rename, export or close it.

The context menu for a data source opens a dropdown with options including rename, extract and close.

For details on the many ways you can customise and work with the fields in the Data pane, see Organise and Customise Fields in the Data Pane, Edit Default Settings for Fields, and Work with Data Fields in the Data Pane.

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