Adding Web Pages To Dashboards

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video we're going to look at adding web pages to our dashboard.
• 00:07 So Tableau allows us to actually add a fully functioning live web page to our
• 00:12 dashboard, which is very, very cool.
• 00:14 So there are all kinds of circumstances where you might want to add a web page to
• 00:17 your dashboard.
• 00:18 Maybe there's some data on that web page you want to reference.
• 00:21 Maybe it's just your company website and
• 00:22 you want your boss to see it while you're doing it.
• 00:24 Maybe you're doing a presentation for
• 00:26 a client, you want their website accessible from the dashboard,
• 00:29 maybe there's something in there you want to click on or need to click on.
• 00:32 This is a great thing for that.
• 00:34 So you come down here and you can see in our objects menu, this webpage, so
• 00:38 we can grab this and pull it over.
• 00:40 And we can put this anywhere we want.
• 00:41 So probably kind of a little bit bigger.
• 00:45 So let's just sort of play around with this until, We get it where we want.
• 00:51 Let go of your button to drop it.
• 00:54 And now it's asking for your URL.
• 00:56 So I could just go HTTPS://, let's just use
• 01:00 the GoSkills website for an example, click Okay.
• 01:05 And then you can see it's sort of doing its little thing it's going out and
• 01:08 looking for it.
• 01:09 And it's grabbed it.
• 01:10 And you can see it doesn't quite fit because the tile we just created is
• 01:13 very small.
• 01:14 So we could obviously resize this or we can make it floating or
• 01:16 do whatever you want.
• 01:18 So one thing to note, you obviously have to be online in order to do this,
• 01:21 your computer has to be connected to the Internet.
• 01:24 If it's not, you'll get obviously an error.
• 01:27 And like I said, we can resize this, make this bigger, which is not great.
• 01:34 Or we can click on here and just sort of move this whole thing around.
• 01:41 Maybe find a better spot for it.
• 01:45 Down here at the bottom.
• 01:49 There we go.
• 01:51 And you can see there's a scroll bar here.
• 01:52 So if it doesn't quite fit, you can scroll.
• 01:55 And you can click on different things and it's an actual web browser,
• 02:00 actually allows you to navigate around in this web browser.
• 02:05 They're very, very cool, and really easy to use.
• 02:08 Now obviously with our current dashboard, this is a bit of a challenge because it
• 02:12 doesn't quite fit with the layout we've already done.
• 02:15 So what I would probably do is get rid of this and just start a new dashboard,
• 02:21 and then right off the bat, resize this, maybe 1600.
• 02:26 And then right off the bat start out by dropping our web page,
• 02:31 back to GoSkills.com, and we have the whole screen for this.
• 02:37 And then we could come in here and drop in our other you know items that we want.
• 02:45 Now this is down in the corner.
• 02:46 However you would like to do this.
• 02:48 Obviously you can play around with this and make it look however you want.
• 02:50 But still dropping your web browser into your dashboard very easy and
• 02:54 really kind of cool.
• 02:55 This is a really nice feature that I like about this Tableau.
• 02:58 And this is a fully fledged out website, right?
• 03:02 You might set this to a specific page that's created just for
• 03:05 your presentation, right?
• 03:07 That has very specific graphics or very specific data points, or
• 03:11 just a few words even that you want to put in there,
• 03:14 which you might want to have some sort of interactive ability to do or whatever.
• 03:19 And this gives you complete control.
• 03:20 So if you have any experience with HTML and web design,
• 03:23 you can sort of integrate that into this. Very, very cool.
• 03:26 So that's all for this video.
• 03:27 In the next video we'll look at adding blank spaces

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