Rearranging the Vertical Column

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay in this video, I want to talk about sort of playing around and
• 00:07 rearranging this vertical column.
• 00:09 So we created these dashboards and when we did, Tableau just sort of throws these
• 00:14 legends and these things over here in this right hand corner in this vertical bar.
• 00:19 It makes its best guess estimate where these go, but
• 00:22 they're not always in the greatest spots.
• 00:24 So for instance this license type, this orange and green,
• 00:28 obviously corresponds with this guy down here.
• 00:31 So we might want to move this down there, right?
• 00:34 Things like that.
• 00:35 Some of these things we may not want it all right?
• 00:38 So we've got this count thing.
• 00:40 No that's not really all that useful shows 91,000 maybe you want that maybe
• 00:45 you don't have it this one, I don't know it's not all that useful at all.
• 00:49 Maybe you don't want that at all.
• 00:51 So those are the things we're going to talk about in this video how to
• 00:53 play around with that column.
• 00:54 So the first thing I'm going to do is come over here and
• 00:58 right click and let's duplicate this.
• 01:01 Just because and let's change the name of this to let's say My Dog,
• 01:07 Dashboard, dash vertical.
• 01:11 Just so we can sort of keep track of these in case we mess this up,
• 01:14 which you may very well do when you're moving these things around.
• 01:17 It's it's sort of easy to make a bad move here and
• 01:20 have the whole formatting sort of get a little wonky.
• 01:23 So I like to create a second duplicate just to make sure in that way if we mess
• 01:27 up, we can just come back over here, create another duplicate and
• 01:31 start over, right?
• 01:32 So it's sort of a good idea.
• 01:33 So let's start right here, this license type, this obviously goes with this.
• 01:37 So what I would do is just sort of click on here, and
• 01:40 when you do you see the whole thing highlights.
• 01:43 But then you can hover over this little notch thing at the top, and
• 01:46 you get the sort of standard moving arrow icon right there.
• 01:49 So if you click on this and hold your mouse button down,
• 01:52 you can then drag this around and we can bring this anywhere.
• 01:54 We can bring it out here if we wanted to, but we likely don't want to get crazy.
• 01:58 So let's just bring it right down here somewhere right about there,
• 02:02 that looks good.
• 02:03 And now if we click on this, this thing moves, so this and this go together, so
• 02:07 that's kind of good.
• 02:08 Like I said earlier, we've got this thing maybe we don't want it at all,
• 02:14 so we could either click floating and pull it out, and then sort of move it.
• 02:20 I don't know maybe like right here.
• 02:25 Right?
• 02:26 Something like that.
• 02:30 Or we could just delete it completely, and now that's gone, whichever one you like.
• 02:36 Maybe I'll just leave that there because kind of interesting.
• 02:38 Our move it over a little bit, so it's right here.
• 02:45 And bring it down a little, kind of squeeze in there, that's kind of interesting,
• 02:49 you might do something like that.
• 02:51 And same thing with this guy right here, maybe we want to move it over here.
• 02:54 So same thing when I right click here and click floating.
• 02:59 There we go, so it pops out, we can grab it,
• 03:02 bring it over maybe we want it right there.
• 03:07 Okay, so maybe that's good, these don't quite line up so
• 03:11 we'll go up a little, I'm just playing right now because this is fun.
• 03:16 So now we have these two things that go with this and this and this.
• 03:21 Okay, maybe we want this guy above this guy so
• 03:26 we can bring this up and then drop it.
• 03:31 And you might have noticed it was a little tricky to do that. I wasn't quite
• 03:34 sure where it was it didn't quite highlight correctly.
• 03:36 So you really have to sort of finesse this and play around with this to get these
• 03:41 in the exact right area that you want them to be, but that's looking pretty good.
• 03:46 Now what we could do is add another horizontal thing here, and
• 03:51 then just sort of drag this over here.
• 03:54 Maybe we want it this right here next to the pie chart, I don't know.
• 03:58 And then if we move that, kind of changes back, or
• 04:02 you could always do something like that.
• 04:05 If these are sort of confusing, but you have all the options.
• 04:09 You can arrange these any way you want.
• 04:11 And now this is definitely cleaner over here, if that's what you want,
• 04:15 maybe you like it better the way it was before.
• 04:17 But you have the option to do that, and it's really really easy.
• 04:21 So that's all for this video.
• 04:22 In the next video, we'll look at adding text and images to our dashboard.

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