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Define a highlight action

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Define a highlight action

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- When you create a dashboard, you give yourself quick access to overviews of your data. You'll probably care most about a subset of that data at any given time, so Tableau lets you highlight data according to rules that you define. In this movie, I will show you how to define an action so you can apply a highlight quickly. My sample file is 12_06_Highlight, and you can find it in the Chapter 12 folder of the Exercise Files collection. In this workbook, I have a dashboard that focuses on job title. So you can see here that I have sales by region that are broken down by employee job title, then I have total in another text table, and then I have sales by category, and again, it's broken down by job title, so Sales Associate, Sales Associate 1, and the other titles used in the company. My goal is to be able to click an item in Sales by Job Title and have it highlight the corresponding values in other panes of the…

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