Adding Images and Text

Quick reference

• 00:00 In this video I want to show you how to add images and text to your dashboard.
• 00:08 So let's come down here, and let's just right click and
• 00:11 duplicate this guy one more time.
• 00:14 And let's rename this images and text.
• 00:18 So Tableau allows us to use both text and images in our dashboards.
• 00:25 It's really cool and it's really easy.
• 00:27 So all we have to do is grab this little image guy and
• 00:29 just sort of position it around wherever we want our image.
• 00:33 So, let's say we want a logo or something.
• 00:36 I'm going to try and bring it up here, and I dropped it right here.
• 00:41 And we can resize this a little bit.
• 00:42 And you can see, we get this box that pops up that says Edit Image Object.
• 00:46 So here we just choose the file that we want.
• 00:48 So I'm going to click Choose, navigate to my desktop, and
• 00:51 I've got a little GoSkills image here.
• 00:53 And if I click on there, it loads it in here, you can see it right there.
• 00:56 Now we probably want to fit the image, or at least center the image.
• 00:59 And we'll look at both of these here.
• 01:01 We can do target URL and alt text, and we'll look at those in just a second.
• 01:04 But let's just click OK.
• 01:05 You can see boom, it is way too big.
• 01:07 Now, you have several options here.
• 01:09 You can manually sort of grab this and
• 01:11 drag it around to make sure this fits, right?
• 01:14 Or you can edit it and use a different image, so we can choose different image.
• 01:19 I've got a second one that's slightly smaller, GoSkills too, click OK.
• 01:23 Okay, that's a little bit smaller but it's still not the right size.
• 01:26 What we probably really want to do is click this Fit Image box.
• 01:31 So I usually do that by default, go ahead and Click OK.
• 01:33 And boom, now it's much, much too small.
• 01:36 But we can just kind of drag this around and get it to wherever we want to get it.
• 01:41 So, all right, that looks pretty good.
• 01:43 So now we can add a URL to this.
• 01:45 So if we click on here, and we've got this target URL, so
• 01:50 we can type https://goskills.com or whatever website you want, click OK.
• 01:57 Now when we hover over this, we can see the address pops up.
• 02:00 And now if we click on this, boom, it opens a web browser to that website.
• 02:04 So that's really cool if you need to navigate to a web browser or
• 02:07 something from your Tableau dashboard, pretty cool.
• 02:10 And so those are images.
• 02:11 Now we can also add text anywhere we want.
• 02:14 So let's say we want a big banner at the top of this headline type thing.
• 02:18 We could grab the text widget here, bring it over here, and
• 02:21 just sort of, Do it like this.
• 02:25 I kind of highlighted it up at the very top there.
• 02:27 And I could say My Dog Dashboard.
• 02:32 And we can highlight this and
• 02:34 change the color to anything we want something like that.
• 02:37 Maybe make it bold, maybe really big.
• 02:40 We can click OK. And so obviously that's not great.
• 02:45 We could resize it any way we want.
• 02:47 And it's over here, maybe you like that, maybe you don't.
• 02:50 We can click on edit, come here and click center.
• 02:52 And then boom, now it's centered, you have all the options that you want.
• 02:57 Remember, we've got these little tile guys here, so
• 03:00 maybe we'd want to move these down here or something, right, whatever you like.
• 03:07 And now we're really getting a look and feel going in our dashboard.
• 03:10 So it's just that easy to add text and
• 03:12 I added this sort of banner headline here at the top.
• 03:15 You can add text anywhere, right?
• 03:17 You can put specific titles above each of your little visualizations here.
• 03:23 Now they have a title by default like right here, it says dog breeds.
• 03:26 Right here's this dog color pie chart.
• 03:29 But if you wanted to add a different one as well, you could do that just that easy.
• 03:32 So that's images and text.
• 03:34 In the next video, we'll look at floating tiles.

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