tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248043124025283718.post6456384339009278004..comments2024-03-07T00:57:28.278-05:00Comments on Tableau Friction: Tv8 Dashboard Quick Filters - Great, FlawedChris Gerrardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01598731155784487000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248043124025283718.post-50119009538540109022013-02-21T20:13:39.050-05:002013-02-21T20:13:39.050-05:00Hi Robert,
Seeing the v6.1 image was like seeing...Hi Robert, <br /><br />Seeing the v6.1 image was like seeing an old friend.<br /><br />It does bring up a number of things, as does your comment, surrounding the visual prominence of elements in design and consumption modes. I've long wished that the frame enhancing for the last-touched element could be turned off, feel like it's almost always a cognitive distraction for someone who's simply using the dashboard to see data.<br /><br />If Tableau's going to open the door to having distinct authoring and consuming modes that makes many, many possible authoring improvements possible that would simply overwhelm the consumer's visual space.<br /><br />I've heard from multiple people at Tableau that there's a commitment to "no modes". Perhaps it's getting to the point where the operational complexity of handling Tableau's increasingly rich functionality makes modal use a compelling option.<br /><br />And the modal barrier has already been breached, albeit in not too obvious ways.Chris Gerrardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01598731155784487000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6248043124025283718.post-1129082241607122782013-02-21T17:00:46.078-05:002013-02-21T17:00:46.078-05:00Hi Chris,
This has been a point of debate at Tabl...Hi Chris,<br /><br />This has been a point of debate at Tableau for a while. Back in v6.1 we did in fact identify which filters where associated with which worksheets in a dashboard. You can see an example of this in the following screenshot of a dashboard, which shows dashed lines surrounding the top-most two quick filters to the right of the selected sheet: http://eden.rutgers.edu/~renee3w/554/tableauexercise/tableaupics/class%20size%20dash.png<br /><br />The shortcoming to this approach is that it draws unwanted attention to particular sheets or filters as a user interacts with a dashboard in Tableau Desktop or via a browser. Many times the context for the filters is clearly expressed by thoughtful dashboard layout, descriptive titles and textual instructions describing how the audience can interact to answer their own questions. We found that the additional context hints Tableau provided was distracting from the overall story, and we removed that functionality in v7.0.<br /><br />Perhaps we can consider restoring some similar functionality for authors but not their audience.<br /><br />-RobertRobert Mortonhttp://twitter.com/TableauDataNerdnoreply@blogger.com