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How to use layout containers

How to use layout containers - Tableau Tutorial

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How to use layout containers

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- [Presenter] Let's look at a couple of examples to understand how containers work. Now, if you've created a dashboard already using the tiled method, you've actually already created a container, but you just didn't know it. When we use the tiled layout, Tableau uses containers to put objects into. So in this example dashboard here, there are actually two containers. There's one for the profit legend on the right-hand side and then there's one that contains the map. Now the problem with containers is they're invisible; they're just holding places to put other things in, so you can't actually see them. If we go to the Layout tab and expand the Item hierarchy at the bottom, I can see all of the objects that are currently in my view. So I have my Profit Legend, which is inside a vertical container, and the Profit Map, which is inside this tiled container, which is actually a horizontal container that actually has the tiled and the vertical container inside it. So this is where the…

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