Show and hide button for tiled layout items :New in Tableau 2021.2

0:00Hey, it's Tim here. In 2021.2, you can now

0:03create the Show and Hide button for any

0:05object on a dashboard, not just floating

0:08objects.

0:08So this is really, really nice. Previously,

0:10what you had to do, let's say you wanted to

0:13show or hide this particular tab, you'd

0:15have to put it in a floating container.

0:17So if I let me just build something very,

0:19very quickly. So if I bring in a vertical

0:21floating, I could then go to this little

0:23drop down, and I could add the Show or Hide

0:25button to sort of enable and disable it.

0:27Now you can do that for tiled objects as

0:29well. So let me just get rid of this

0:31floating container. And let's go to this

0:33one here, you can see that this is actually

0:35a tiled object.

0:35The way I know it's tiled is if I double

0:37click it, you'll know that it you'll see

0:39that a blue icon appears. That means it's t

0:41iled inside of a container.

0:42And if I double click that again, I know

0:44that that's inside of a container. And if I

0:46double click again, you'll see that it

0:48keeps going out until the hierarchy is

0:50complete.

0:51I can also go over here to the very left

0:53hand side to the layout tab to see what

0:55that looks like. So if I go to the layout,

0:57you'll see that everything is inside of a t

0:59iled container.

1:00And then you have two horizontal containers

1:02, this one on the bottom and this one on the

1:04top. And as I click on these, you'll see

1:06that the blue highlight moves around to

1:08show me what I'm selecting.

1:10And I hate it when it does this, it puts

1:12lots of tiled sections inside each other.

1:14And this is the actual horizontal one I'm

1:16interested in. And again, if I go into that

1:19, I'm actually able to sort of get right

1:21down into this container that I'm actually

1:23interested in seeing.

1:24So that's basically a tiled setup. Now, if

1:26I go back to this particular chart, I can

1:29actually click on this drop down, if you're

1:31wondering where I am, I'm just over here,

1:33this little tiny little arrow, click on

1:35that.

1:35And when we click on that, you'll see that

1:37we get this option to add and show hide

1:39button. So this is nice, because when we

1:42add this to a tiled piece of content, if I

1:44hold option, or I think it's command or

1:47option on Windows, I think it's command on

1:50a Mac, if I hold command and tap that, it

1:52actually enables that option.

1:54So that's not working, because I've got the

1:57shortcut wrong. So if I do that, you'll see

1:59that it's actually also expanding the view.

2:02So if I hold option and hit close, you'll

2:04see that it's almost disappears.

2:06And this is a nice addition, because it

2:09allows you to have a lot more control with

2:11layout, and how everything works. I think

2:13it's just a really nice addition, you can

2:15kind of be smart with collapsing containers

2:17.

2:18What people used to have to do is they used

2:21to have to use a parameter to change a

2:23filter to do this. And now you can just do

2:25this so quickly. It's so nice to have that

2:28available. So I think this is really,

2:29really nice. And I love it.

2:30I, you know, there can't only the amount of

2:33time this would have saved me in the past.

2:35So a great feature for 2021.2. And

2:38hopefully something you'll enjoy using. If

2:40you've enjoyed this video, you know what to

2:42do. Otherwise, I'll catch you in the next

2:43video about the new feature set.