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Dimension hierarchy, dashboard filters and focus
1. Having dimension hierarchies is great: it lets you drill down and roll up, you get performance gains, information is presented in a more compact way, and so on... It's a shame that they are available only for dimensional data sources. Why not enable Tableau users to create hierarchies from relational data? Instead of having two dimensions: Product level 1 and Product level 2, we could just say that the latter is a child of the former and treat it as one dimension. Then we could drill down and roll up just as we do with Date fields. We could expand just those member of a dimension that we want instead of the whole dimension. We could also have hierarchical filters with a tree control.
2. Dashboard with quick filters are a great feature. Often you want one filter to control more sheets on the dashboard. This can be done with a global filter, but sometimes you don't want that. You want a filter on a dashboard level.
3. Reader has no "Clear manual sizing" option so when you use the focus tool the only option you have to get back to the original view is the undo, which is not very logical. And if you do anything after the focus such as filtering, you need to undo those operations first.
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Hi Igor,
For #1 & #2 - great ideas that we have been talking about interally for a little while now. These are both on our radar for a future release (no specific timeframe defined yet though).
For Reader and manual sizing, you're right, you need to either 'undo', or use the File/Revert to Saved menu which resets the entire workbook to where you started. A clear manual sizing might be a nice addition. We will add this idea to the consideration list.
I agree 110% This is the one thing that really holds me back. I came from the Proclarity world, and the Data Decomposition Tree is awesome.
Qliktech also figures out the related data and hierchies automatically.
Tableau doesn't seem to have any equivelent way to drill "down" around and back up hierarchies. I don't want ot have to hire a database developer to turn my source data into a SQL2005 warehouse.
I understand my underlying data and would love to be able to drag and drop them similar to Crystal Report's Dala Link Wizard, to show the hierarchial relationship.