For a horizontal timeline as pictured above place the newly created placeholder calculated field on the rows shelf.

Create a timeline in tableau.

We ll use a sheet to create a left button and another sheet for a right button. This is just a simple sheet using a shape mark type. Our objective is to build the timeline chart that can be used as a calendar showing upcoming dates of interest. Drag the order date dimension to columns. The column headers change. Have a dataset that you can easily work with and export it into tableau ready to go.

The formula for my placeholder field is simply min 0. In this article i am going to mention the steps that required to timeline chart in a tableau. Next we need to create the user interface needed to scroll the timeline. The first step to creating a linear timeline in tableau is we need to create that consistent baseline. To create the sheet for the minimum date simply place the date field used to create your timeline on the text marks card with an aggregation of minimum. This calculated field will eventually be used to make all of the dates line up in a straight line on the timeline.

I promise i ll make it as clear as possible so that you can be able to make a timeline chart in tableau. Chelsea in the premier league. Then we re going to leverage parameter actions to cause the timeline start and timeline end parameters to increase or decrease when one of the buttons is clicked. Here s how i created it the breaking bad dashboard in tableau. That is unless you re a paleontologist history teacher or anyone else who may. Downloaded the background image from the internet 2.

And this is yet another application of one of my favorite tactics in tableau which is to create what i call a placeholder field. Typical day to day analysis is focused on things that have happened in recent days months or years. Learn tableau for data science. We seldom go far enough into the past to make us think about what to do with dates prior to date zero normally january 1 1900. Downloaded the breaking. Now that i had finished the final season of breaking bad for the third time i thought to myself why not create a breaking bad timeline in tableau.

This is a. Tableau aggregates the dates by year and creates column headers with labels for the years. Let s start with the right button. The formula that i always use is the aggregation of min m i n 0. Designing a classic timeline in tableau. On the columns shelf click the year order date drop down arrow and then select week number.

Now that i m able to create a timeline chart i want to show you the process into how i made my timeline visualisation on the history of arsenal v. The timeline chart will look like this.