Supported Tableau Functionality
Prerequisite
Below functionality requires Windows Tableau 10.x and above
Data Connection
| Function | Support Status | Operation Path |
|---|---|---|
| Use Windows Authentication | Not Support | Connect - To a Server - More - Microsoft Analysis Services - Use Windows Authentication |
| Use a specific username and password | Support | Connect - To a Server - More - Microsoft Analysis Services - Use a specific username and password |
Sync Semantic Model
| Function | Support Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Dimension Table | Support | |
| Hierarchy | Support | |
| Dimension | Support | |
| Measure | Support | |
| Calculated Measure | Support | Measures and calculated meausres are shown in the mesure panel |
| Named Set | Support | |
| Folder | Not Support | Folders of dimensions and measures are not synchronized |
Field Select & Search
| Function | Support Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Filters | Support | Support filtering on dimension, hierarchy and measure |
| Rows | Support | Support choosing dimension, hierarchy and measure |
| Columns | Support | Support choosing dimension, hierarchy and measure |
| Sheet area | Support | |
| Field Search | Support | Support searching dimension, hierarchy and measure |
Filtering
| Function | Support Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Filter on dimension | Support | Support General, Condition, Top filter. Support single/multiple values filtering. Support searching value on filters |
| Filter on hierarchy | Support | Support General, Condition, Top filter. Support single/multiple values filtering. Support searching value on filters |
| Filter on measure/calculetd measure | Support | Sopport Range of laues, At least, At most, Special filtering |
Sorting
| Function | Support Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Sorting dimension/hierarchy | Support | Support sorting from an axis, header, field label, or toolbar, or manual sorting. Support sorting by Data source order, Alphabetic, Field, Manual, or Nested |
| Sorting measure/calculetd measure | Support | Support sorting from an axis, header, field label, or toolbar, or manual sorting |
Layout & Display
| Function | Support Status | Operation Path | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Format setting | Support | Right-click menu - Format | Formating such as currency sign $ or￥can be set by editing the dataset, or it can be set in Tableau |
| Show Totals | Support | Analysis - Totals | Columns with small cardinality placed on the left has better performance |
| Show Subtotals | Support | Analysis - Totals - Add All Subtotals | Columns with small cardinality placed on the left has better performance |
Data Refresh
| Function | Support Status | Operation Path | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto Update Worksheet | Support | Toolbar - Auto Update Worksheet | |
| Data Source - Refresh | Support | Data - the specified data source - Refresh | Will update all worksheets using the same data source |
Dashboard
| Function | Support Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Filter Actions | Support | Dashboard - Actions - Add Action - Filter |
| Highlight Actions | Support | Dashboard - Actions - Add Action - Highlight |
| Go to URL Actions | Support | Dashboard - Actions - Add Action - Go to URL |
| Go to Sheet Actions | Support | Dashboard - Actions - Add Action - Go to Sheet |