Creating a highlight action

The highlight action in Tableau dashboards allows related marks in other views to be emphasized by retaining their colors and dimming the colors of all other unrelated marks.

In this recipe, we will use a highlight action on mouse hover to highlight the points history and players for a specific NBA team.

Creating a highlight action

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, open B05527_04 – STARTER.twbx. We will use the following worksheets:

  • Teams
  • Players
  • Points History
    Getting ready

How to do it...

The following are the steps to create the dashboard in this recipe:

  1. At the bottom ...

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