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In this lesson, you'll learn how to add Images and Text to your Dashboard.
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Quick reference
Adding Images and Text
In this lesson, you'll learn how to add Images and Text to your Dashboard.
When to use
Use this technique whenever you'd like to add images or text to your Dashboard.
Instructions
To add an Image or Text to your Dashboard, grab an image or text "Object" from the Object panel on the lower right hand corner of the Dashboard Screen.
Drag it onto the dashboard and drop it wherever you'd like.
Hints & tips
- Adding Images or Text is as easy as dragging and dropping an "Image" or "Text" object to the screen.
- 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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