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In this lesson, you'll learn how to add a webpage to a Dashboard.
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Adding Web Pages To Dashboards
In this lesson, you'll learn how to add a webpage to a Dashboard.
When to use
Use this whenever you'd like a web page on your Dashboard.
Instructions
To add a webpage to your dashboard, drag and drop a "Web Page" object from the Objects panel in the lower left hand corner of the dashboard screen.
Type in the web page URL in the "Edit URL" box that pops up.
Hints & tips
- You can easily drag and drop a web page object into any Dashboard.
- 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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