✒️Welcome✒️

The documentation was gone, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The notes were gone, the context forgotten, the lineage untracked. The analyst swore it, the manager confirmed it, and the stakeholder nodded gravely. The old documentation was as gone as a doornail.

But today, fear not! We are visited by the Ghosts of Documentation Past, Present, and Future.

👻Ghosts of Past, Present, and Future: A Documentation Guide👻

Preethi Lodha

Have you been asked to maintain or fix a dashboard you didn’t create? Don’t panic. Learn how to create clear and effective Tableau dashboard documentation for easy troubleshooting or hand-off.

📱I'm Dreaming of a Mobile Layout📱

Kimberly Coutts

What does your dashboard look like when someone views it on their phone? If you have never tested it, you might be in for a surprise. Kim will cover the pros and cons of mobile vs desktop viewing, and show you the basics of how to build a single workbook that can be viewed using multiple layouts.

(With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore/Henry Livingston Jr.)

“’Twas the night before the TUG meeting, when all through the site,
Not a filter was stirring, not even at night.
The worksheets were nestled, all snug in their view,
In hopes that on mobile, they’d look polished too.

When out on the tablet there arose such a tap,
I sprang to my layout, adjusting the map.
Away to the phone view I flew like a flash,
Resizing and shifting to avoid overlap.

And what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a sleek mobile dashboard—so simple, so clear!
With filters and spacing all tidy and right,
We’ll build mobile-first magic, starting tonight!"