Shelves and cards

Where fields are placed will affect the layout of the visualization. As you work more with the tool, you will gain a better understanding of how to best approach building visualizations. You should always take the time to try multiple approaches.

You can add fields to shelves and cards by dragging and dropping. You can also double-click fields in the Data pane and Tableau will attempt to display the data using best practices; however, this does not always yield the desired results.

Shelves – Columns and Rows

Placing fields in either the Columns or Rows shelves creates headers in the view. It is important to remember that visualizations are built using marks, which are just records in your data...