Are you excited about the new Dynamic Zone Visibility feature in Tableau 2022.3? You should be, because this new feature is going to blow you away!
Let’s get into it.
First you will need to have a dashboard with 2 charts. Any 2 charts will suffice (I’ve gone with superstore data).
The Logic
The Logic behind the chart swapping is to use Boolean parameters to control which chart shows, and which one hides. As such, we are going to start by creating a Boolean Parameter, and we will call it ‘Chart Swapping’.
The Calculated Fields
Next comes the Calculated Fields, one for parameter is ‘TRUE’ and the other for Parameter is ‘FALSE’, one each for our 2 charts.
The Designation
Once we are done with the Calc fields, we need to assign these Calc fields to a chart (OR container, if you have the charts in separate containers) on the dashboard each.
You will notice that upon completion of this step that one of your charts will disappear. Don’t worry, this is supposed to happen. The reason for this is that we have assigned one of our charts (or containers) to the parameter TRUE value, and the other to the parameter FALSE value.
The Final Product
Once we have completed all the above steps, we need to test our work to make sure it is behaving as we want. First, we need to show the chart swapping parameter on our dashboard. Then we need to test how our chart swapping behaves between the TRUE and FALSE values.
CONGRATULATIONS!! You now have a fully functional chart/container swapping dashboard without the annoying white space place holder that we had previous to Tableau 2022.3 with our hacks.
I hope you have found the post useful, and I will see you next time.