# Tableau 2020.2: How to add and remove sets using a menu option

> 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:** 2020-05-06
- **Format:** Video · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (dashboards, filters, set actions, sets)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2020-2-how-to-add-and-remove-sets-using-a-menu-option
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/lv0OffZWnr0

I show you a new feature in Tableau 2020.2 that lets you add and remove items from a set using menu options in the tooltip. I walk through creating the set actions and explain the tooltip setting you need to enable to make those menu options appear.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 2020.2 adds 'add values to set' and 'remove values from set' as tooltip menu options, extending existing set action capability
- Create these via Dashboard > Actions > Add action > Change Set Values, set it to run on Menu, and pick add or remove against the correct data source and set
- The menu options only appear when the tooltip is set to 'on hover'; they won't show if 'responsive' is enabled
- Adding or removing set values from the tooltip dynamically changes the comparison context of the whole visualisation

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2020-2-how-to-add-and-remove-sets-using-a-menu-option

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