In Tableau, an action is a user initiated event that triggers a response from Tableau. You've seen a few examples of actions being used in dashboards already. We'll now consider some details of how actions work in Tableau.
Tableau supports five kinds of actions:
- Filter actions: The user's action causes one or more filters to be applied to one or more views.
- Highlight actions: The user's action causes specific marks and headers to be highlighted in one or more views.
- URL actions: The user's action causes a specific URL to be opened (either in a browser, a new tab, or in an embedded web object).
- Set actions: The user's action defines a set. Sets may be used in calculations, filters, and on shelves to define visual attributes of marks. This opens a lot of possibilities to allow for complex and creative interactions.
- Parameter actions...
