Pressing the Alt key on your keyboard and clicking it will hide the element. It’s pretty straightforward: click the drop-down menu of any element on a dashboard and choose: Add Show/Hide Button. Even the annoying default tiled container can be hidden, the very first element in the layout hierarchy.
Now, in 2021.2, Tableau not only opened up this functionality for tiled containers, but it also made it possible to add that button to each and every element on the dashboard! Containers, sheets, legends, text objects, blank objects and everything else.
Putting all those filters into a floating container and adding a Show/Hide Button solved this problem, especially when we build views for tablets, where space is especially scarce: All the filters a user can activate to customize the view are extremely helpful and necessary, but once they are set, they take away valuable real estate that could be used for the actual visualizations. That was (and is) quite neat, as you sometimes have clutter on your dashboard you wish to temporarily remove.Ī famous example: A filter pane. In the end, that essentially gave the user the option to hide or show this container and all its elements. Up until version 2021.1, Tableau offered a function for floating containers (and only those) on dashboards – to add a Show/Hide button. With the recently released version 2021.2 of Tableau Desktop, Tableau fulfilled a wish I never knew I had: I am now going to use the Show/Hide button on any tiled element on every future dashboard I will ever build! (Well, at least I hope so.) What Is This About?
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