# Re-Upload - Dashboard Layout in Tableau Next   Part 6 of 6  [Reposted]

> 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:** 2026-04-10
- **Format:** Video · 53 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (calculated fields, dashboards, data modelling, metrics)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/re-upload---dashboard-layout-in-tableau-next---part-6-of-6--reposted
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXsrCwQGoPw

I attempt to rebuild the Superstore executive overview dashboard inside Tableau Next, working through metrics, calculated measures, layout containers, charts and interactivity. It's a long, honest, warts-and-all build where I discover what carries over from classic Tableau and what doesn't, and I flag plenty of friction along the way.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau Next has no working Measure Names/Measure Values concept the way classic Tableau does, so KPI rows are better built as centrally defined metrics on the semantic model rather than dragging multiple measures onto one viz.
- Calculated measures require you to type and then select fields (free text references fail validation) and aggregated calcs demand the user-aggregation setting, which isn't applied automatically.
- Dashboard objects can't be bulk-selected or overlapped, so layout fixes rely on containers and careful resizing rather than the quick nudging you get in tools like Sigma.
- Charts don't yet expose a title toggle, so titles must be added as text boxes and grouped with the chart inside a container to move together.
- Cross-filtering only works on metrics that include the relevant dimension - omitting a dimension when building a metric silently breaks interactivity on the dashboard.

## Chapters

- 0:02 Channel direction and Salesforce focus
- 1:59 Today's dashboard challenge
- 5:14 Pinning a reference screenshot
- 6:05 Adding a viz and testing measure names
- 13:11 Building metrics and calculated measures
- 25:56 Laying out KPI metrics on the canvas
- 32:12 Building the heat map dot matrix
- 38:39 Line charts and stacked segments
- 43:21 Adding titles with containers
- 46:01 Debugging filters and interactivity
- 50:24 Final reflections on the experience

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/re-upload---dashboard-layout-in-tableau-next---part-6-of-6--reposted

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