Antichaos
Data Visualisation, Tableau & Data Services
A true/false parameter in Tableau gives you three ways to show it: a dropdown, radio buttons, or a slider. None of them looks like the on/off toggle you know from every app on your phone.
Tableau has no native toggle, but three workarounds will get you one: shapes, image roles, and a dashboard extension. In this post I look at all three, and at the pros and cons of each, so you can pick the right one.
[Read more…] about Tableau Toggle Button: 3 Ways to Build an On/Off SwitchTableau dashboards often contain functional, but visually not really exciting navigation. Until recently, creating a modern menu meant floating objects, images, and/or tricky workarounds.
With the new rounded corners feature in Tableau 2026.1, you can now build cleaner, intuitive navigation bars that highlight the active item while keeping the others flat, just like the pill-style menus common on the web. In this post, I’ll show you how to set it up step by step and avoid the common pitfalls along the way.
Instead of the classic, rigid button layouts, you can now create modern navigation bars that feel much closer to what users expect from contemporary web and app design.
It’s a subtle change, but it makes dashboards feel more polished, more intentional, and ultimately more user-friendly.
[Read more…] about How to create pill-style navigation in TableauLabels are often an after-thought for many users – we don’t like them, but are necessary. Using some simple steps we can create better labels which are easier to interpret for the users of the dashboard.
[This blogpost is part of a series tips tricks, as being presented at VizIt Berlin 2023]