How actions work
You saw a few examples of actions used in dashboards. We'll now consider some details of how actions work in Tableau.
Tableau supports three kinds of actions:
Filter actions
Highlight actions
URL actions
Certain actions are automatically generated by Tableau based on shortcuts. For example, you can select Use as Filter from the drop-down menu of a view on a dashboard, resulting in an automatically generated filter action. Enabling highlighting using the button on a discrete color legend or on the toolbar will automatically generate a highlight action.
You can create or edit dashboard actions by navigating to Dashboard | Actions from the menu. Let's consider the details of each type of action.
Filter actions
Filter actions are defined by a source sheet(s) that passes one or more dimensional values as filters to target sheets upon an action. Remember that every mark on a sheet is defined by the unique intersection of dimensional values. When an action occurs involving one or more...
