Interacting with Views on Tableau Server

In this section, we will review some of the most common ways to interact with Views on Tableau Server. The ability to quickly and easily interact with visualizations, as well as obtaining immediate insights, is one of the primary reasons why Tableau is a leading data visualization software. When looking at a view – a visualization created in Tableau – it is important to understand that unless it was purposefully designed to be a static infographic, you are likely to have a highly interactive experience available. Let's go over two of the most common ways to interact with a view to gain additional insights, filtering, and hovering. If you open a view on Tableau Server and want to know more, all you need to do to gain deeper insights or analysis is select or hover over the items on your screen.

Filtering your data is one of the easiest ways to quickly refine the information presented to you. Applying this option is as simple...