From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
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Visually group elements with borders - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards
Visually group elements with borders
- [Instructor] A dashboard is a collection of sheets all put together in the same place. Sometimes it's really useful to be able to group different elements together to make it clear that these are related. One way to do that is to put a border around the elements to kind of group them together, or use a colored background. In order for both of these to work, we need to use layout containers. We need to put the related elements inside a container and then put either a border or a color within that container to then say all of these items are related. So in our example, we've got a dashboard. We have four charts, and they look a little bit similar to begin with. We have a timeline showing the category sales and then a highlight table showing the regional sales for each of our subcategories across our four regions. Then on the right-hand side of the dashboard, we have the same information, but we're looking for profit instead of the sales. And we want to make sure that our viewer…
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