The upper left corner view, presumably would be the highest-priority information. The landing page should be configurable, by dragging and dropping the views in any order the publisher wants them to be in. The landing page would allow the user to simply click-on the view they wanted to see and be launched into the content. A conceptual example of this is shown in Figure 5, in which five views are shown from one Tableau Public Workbook. The Landing Page would graphically show all the dashboards/worksheets in the workbook, with each view having a caption describing its content.
Tableau needs to develop what I call the “ Landing Page” for each Tableau Public (and Server, I suppose) workbook that we create. This type of training can happen when hundreds of people are attending a basketball tournament, but it can’t happen when people are sitting home alone looking at blogs and websites.
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When the users log back on to my dashboard to see the game scores, they might land on a page showing team standings! The problem is that they don’t know how to get back over to the game scores because they don’t see (or don’t know how to use) those page navigation tabs! Eventually people learn how to navigate, but it seems to take one person showing another person how to do it before navigation between pages becomes more common in a workbook. One side-effect of this technique, however, is that it makes people mad because the dashboard changes when they do not want it to. When publishing real-time basketball score reports, for example, I move the landing page around so that people see different views during the course of the tournament. I have determined over time that If I want the consumers of my information to see a point that I am trying to make, I have to land them onto the dashboard and/or worksheet that contains that information that I want to convey at the time.
I have seen enough of this behavior over the past few years to know that it is a real phenomenon. After changing the landing page in Example 2 to, the number of hits on jumped to 51, no other pages changed. I could show other examples but here are some stats instead from these recent examples: Example 1: hits = 225 (landing page), Pages 2-5 = 0 Example 2: hits = 136, Pages 2-5 =0. Maybe there was something strange about that example. I describe the improved method in the next section.įigure 4 – The Tableau Public page hits for the two dashboard example with data collected in under 24 hours. I also suspect that this technique is not visual enough, which is ironic coming from a company with such visual emphasis! There is a much better way to do this and I hope that someone at Tableau will read this blog to see how this can be done. This method simply doesn’t work very well for people not accustomed to using Tableau. How is it that with over 500 people seeing the same thing for the first time, no one could see how to get to the second dashboard? The reason for this mis-behavior is that this method of using tabs on top of the page is not intuitive (we are used to tabs at the bottom of pages, not at the top!). They each were perfectly valid dashboards that each offered different insights in to the data. and were both documented in the blog post. – the landing page – was hit 569 times in less than 24 hours and – the second dashboard – was hit exactly 0 times. After publishing this post, I checked the usage stats on my Tableau Public page the following day and confirmed what I thought would happen.įigure 4 shows the page hits for the Tableau Public workbook consisting simply of two dashboards. An example of this can be found in the middle of this blog post , in which I explicitly identify two dashboards by showing the tabs for each and explaining what they represent. I wrote blog posts about these dashboards, with explicit instructions on how to navigate from one dashboard/worksheet to another. To test whether this is an effective method of displaying and navigating between information, I recently created some new Tableau Public workbooks that had multiple dashboards. Figure 3 – The five navigation worksheet tabs are shown.
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