Highlight actions in Tableau - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create a highlight action that targets the 'Category' field.

Tableau

worksheet.dashboard().actions().addHighlightAction().setSourceField('[1]')

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ASales

BCategory

CDate

DRegion

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Choosing a measure like 'Sales' instead of a dimension.

Using a field name that does not exist in the data.

The highlight action should target the 'Category' field to highlight related marks.

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medium

Complete the code to set the highlight action to run on hover.

Tableau

highlightAction.setRunOn('[1]')

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Aselect

Bclick

Chover

DdoubleClick

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'click' instead of 'hover' changes the interaction behavior.

Using an invalid trigger like 'doubleClick' which is not supported.

Setting the action to run on 'hover' allows users to see highlights when they move the mouse over marks.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly add a highlight action to the dashboard.

Tableau

dashboard.actions().[1](highlightAction)

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AcreateHighlightAction

BaddFilterAction

CremoveHighlightAction

DaddHighlightAction

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'addFilterAction' which adds a filter action, not highlight.

Using 'createHighlightAction' which is not a valid method.

The method to add a highlight action is 'addHighlightAction'. Other methods are incorrect or do not exist.

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hard

Fill both blanks to set the source and target fields for a highlight action.

Tableau

highlightAction.setSourceField('[1]').setTargetField('[2]')

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ACategory

BRegion

CSales

DDate

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using measure fields like 'Sales' which are not suitable for highlight actions.

Mixing up source and target fields.

The source field is 'Category' and the target field is 'Region' to highlight related regions when a category is selected.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a highlight action with source field, target field, and run on click.

Tableau

highlightAction.setSourceField('[1]').setTargetField('[2]').setRunOn('[3]')

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ARegion

BCategory

Cclick

Dhover

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Swapping source and target fields.

Using 'hover' instead of 'click' when the task asks for click.

The highlight action uses 'Category' as source, 'Region' as target, and runs on 'click' to highlight regions when a category is clicked.