Tableau 2020.2: How to control parameters with your keyboard

0:00One of the new features in 2020.2 is the

0:04ability to use your keyboard to control

0:06parameters.

0:07To show you this I'm actually going to open

0:09the Superstore workbook directly from Table

0:12au

0:12Server because this is a web only function

0:14you don't get this in Tableau Desktop.

0:16So in order to do that I need to open up

0:18the Superstore workbook so I'm going to

0:20navigate

0:20to that.

0:24Okay once I'm in the Superstore workbook I

0:26know the what if forecast here this is the

0:28default workbook that gets published up.

0:30The what if forecast has a couple of

0:32parameters here on the right hand side.

0:34So to show you this feature I'd really like

0:36you to pay attention to two things.

0:38I'm going to start hitting tab on my

0:40keyboard and you'll notice that Tableau

0:42will start

0:42navigating through the interface.

0:44Let me just hit that now and you'll notice

0:46the first thing it highlights is the

0:47refresh

0:48option.

0:49If I hit it again it goes to the what if

0:51forecast.

0:52If I hit it again it hops over onto this

0:55year order date filter and I hit it again

0:58and I

0:58keep hitting it it's just navigating the

1:00interface one by one.

1:01I'm sort of following it with my mouse now

1:04you can see it's on all and now you can see

1:06it's on the parameter and I know it's on

1:07the parameter because you get this little

1:09blue

1:10icon around the parameter.

1:11If I hit tab again it goes to the next one.

1:14If I hold shift and then tab it goes back

1:16one so it can actually go backwards as well

1:19as forwards.

1:20Now the new feature here is I can then use

1:23my arrow keys to just nudge this value up

1:26and down and it goes up and down in the

1:27increments that have been specified in the

1:29parameter.

1:30So you can see I'm nudging it up and the

1:32numbers on the screen are changing as I do

1:35that.

1:35So that's a really cool feature.

1:37A lot of productivity hacks especially on

1:39PCs and computers involve not using the

1:41mouse.

1:41So if you can master the keyboard controls

1:43and just be able to navigate these very

1:45very

1:45quickly then it's a great way of sort of

1:47controlling Tableau and controlling these

1:49parameters.

1:50And it also makes it much much better for

1:52accessibility for those people who can't

1:54use

1:54a mouse.

1:55So it's a great accessibility addition.

1:57Now the other thing to bear in mind is that

1:59obviously this highlights a couple of other

2:01options like for example you can see here I

2:04'm navigating this top menu.

2:06I'm just waving at it here now and if I

2:08just keep going across with my mouse you

2:10can see

2:10that I'm using that essentially to go

2:13through the menu and it's a really nice way

2:15of then

2:16navigating the dashboard and I can

2:17basically do this without ever touching the

2:20mouse.

2:20I can sort of just interact with the whole

2:22visualization if I get comfortable with how

2:25these shortcuts work.

2:26But that's pretty much it.

2:27The feature in a nutshell right there.

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