Tableau provides generic help files for its software, including videos, and a community (including forums and user groups).
Please find a list of relevant Tableau help files below. You can also view the Tableau release notes.
Tableau.com Help Files
See the help files that Tableau provides for its software.
- Use Tableau on the Web:
- Get started
- Explore and manage content
- Explore and Analyze Data in a View:
- Select marks to highlight data points in the view.
- Analyze selected marks using tooltips.
- Highlight data by category in tooltips.
- Explore data in maps.
- Add analytics objects to the view.
- Compare marks data with recalculated lines.
- Use Custom Views:
- Save a custom view.
- Choose a different custom view.
- Change your default view.
- Make a custom view public or private.
- Delete a custom view.
- Tag Content.
- Manage Web Content:
- Use shared content pages.
- Use your private content page.
- Select content and perform actions on it.
- Structure content projects, groups, and permissions.
- Refresh Data or Pause Automatic Updates.
- Work with Content Revisions:
- Required permissions for revision history.
- Publish your content.
- View revision history.
- Manage revisions.
- Potential revision history issues.
- Explore and Analyze Data in a View:
- Author web views
- Build Views on the Web:
- Create a new workbook.
- Edit a web view.
- Create a bar chart.
- Create a highlight table.
- Create a map view.
- Create a Dashboard:
- Open a Dashboard sheet.
- Add views.
- Add objects.
- Add interactivity.
- Edit a web dashboard.
- Best practices for Dashboards:
- Create a Story:
- Create a story point.
- Explore layout options.
- Format a story.
- Delete a story point.
- Save your work:
- Save a workbook.
- Save a copy of an existing workbook.
- Save changes as a custom view.
- Why am I getting a * in Tableau?
- Build Views on the Web:
- Share and collaborate
- Share Web Views:
- Link to a view.
- Embed a view.
- Subscribe to Views:
- Subscribe yourself or others to a view.
- Unsubscribe yourself from a view.
- Send Data-Driven Alerts from Tableau Online or Tableau Server.
- Embed Views and Dashboards.
- Comment on Views.
- Share Web Views:
Videos
Click free Tableau training videos and navigate to Tableau Online. You will need to create an account and log in before you can view the videos.
Community
Tableau’s online forums and user groups.
Release Notes
View the Tableau Online release notes.