# How to Swap sheets in a dashboard in Tableau Desktop 2019.2 and newer.

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2020-01-10
- **Format:** Video · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (dashboards, maps)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-swap-sheets-in-a-dashboard-in-tableau-desktop-2019-2-and-newer
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/noqN6ButBkk

I demonstrate the swap sheets feature introduced in Tableau Desktop 2019.2, replacing a filled map with a circle map inside a sample dashboard. I show where the hidden swap icon lives and how to re-enable dashboard actions after the swap.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 2019.2 lets you swap one sheet for another directly inside a dashboard without rebuilding the layout
- The swap option is hidden from menus and right-click options; you select the sheet to replace, hover over the new one, and click the small swap icon that appears
- After swapping a sheet you must re-enable any dashboard actions, as filter actions are not carried across to the replacement
- The example uses the new 2019.2 vector mapping capability to build a circle map as the replacement

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-swap-sheets-in-a-dashboard-in-tableau-desktop-2019-2-and-newer

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