Tableau Help: Size and lay out your dashboard
Documents dashboard size choices, tiled versus floating layout, layout containers, grouping related dashboard items, positioning, spacing, and responsive sizing behavior.
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Pattern Decisions This Source Supports
| Pattern | Supported decision | Required contract | Claim note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom dashboard | Choose custom dashboard when users need to choose which widgets appear, where they appear, and how much space they occupy. | Entering customization mode freezes dashboard reading interactions and makes layout-editing controls explicit. | Tableau documents dashboard size, tiled and floating layout, layout containers, grouping, and responsive behavior. |
| Dashboard layout | Choose dashboard layout when the user's task is monitoring or triaging multiple related signals on one page. | Dashboard title, purpose, active filters, and last updated time apply visibly to the widgets they govern. | Tableau documents dashboard sizing, tiled and floating layout, layout containers, grouping, and responsive behavior. |
| User-controlled layout | Choose user-controlled layout when users choose the arrangement, visibility, or order of workspace regions around the same task object. | Changing layout rearranges regions but does not change the active record, dataset, filters, columns, sort, density, theme, or saved view unless the user explicitly chooses those changes. | Provides layout-container and responsive-sizing evidence for distinguishing authored dashboards from user-selected workspace layouts. |
Comparisons supported by this source
- Custom dashboard vs dashboard layout vs saved view vs preference center
Tableau documents dashboard layout containers, sizing, tiled and floating layout, grouping, and responsive behavior.
- Dashboard layout vs data visualization vs table vs saved view
Tableau documents dashboard size, layout containers, grouping, and responsive layout behavior.
- User-controlled layout vs custom dashboard vs dashboard layout vs saved view vs window splitter
Tableau documents layout containers and responsive sizing, useful for separating authored dashboard layout from user workspace layout.
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