Guidelines: a reminder
Throughout this chapter, I laid out a series of partitioning and addressing guidelines. Here they are again as a quick reminder:
- Do not use the out-of-the-box partitioning and addressing settings provided by Tableau, including Table (across) and Pane (down). Force yourself to click Specific Dimensions and manually define the partitioning and addressing so that you clearly understand how every table calculation is applied.
- Place all needed dimensions on the desired shelves before setting partitioning and addressing for table calculations.
- It is not necessary to choose the bottom dimension in the At the level drop-down menu. It is always identical to Deepest.
- When addressing multiple dimensions for a table calculation, the order of addressing will usually reflect the order of dimensions on the Rows and/or Columns shelves.
