# Tableau 2020.2: Set controls for set actions.

> 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, set controls)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2020-2-set-controls-for-set-actions
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/1-eTf-L-uCA

I give a quick demo of set controls, a feature introduced in Tableau 2020.2 that pairs with set actions. Using a London property price map, I show how adding a set to the filters pane lets you surface a filter-like control on the dashboard that updates alongside your selections.

## Key takeaways

- Set controls in Tableau 2020.2 let users select set members through a filter-style control rather than clicking items directly on a chart
- To enable a set control, add the set to the filters pane and choose to show in/out of set before calling it on the dashboard
- Set controls and set actions stay in sync: selecting via the control updates the visualisation, and clicking the chart updates the control
- Filter-like controls give precise interaction and are particularly useful on mobile devices where chart interaction is cumbersome

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/tableau-2020-2-set-controls-for-set-actions

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