# Quick LODs: New inTableau 2021.1

> 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:** 2021-03-26
- **Format:** Video · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (calculated fields, lod expressions)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/quick-lods-new-intableau-2021-1
- **Watch:** https://youtu.be/mgmDI4IsYqA

I walk through Quick LODs, a new feature in Tableau 2021.1 that gives you a fast way to create a Fixed Level of Detail calculation. I show the slightly unintuitive drag-and-drop method, plus an alternative that opens the calculation editor straight away.

## Key takeaways

- To create a Quick LOD by dragging, you must hold CTRL (Windows) or CMD (Mac) while dropping a measure onto a dimension, otherwise nothing happens.
- Quick LODs always generate a Fixed LOD, which you can then edit manually to use INCLUDE or EXCLUDE instead.
- Selecting a measure and a dimension together (with CTRL/CMD), then right-clicking and choosing Create LOD, opens the calculation editor immediately for instant editing.
- Quick LODs auto-name calculations sequentially based on the measure and dimension involved.

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/quick-lods-new-intableau-2021-1

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