# Re-Upload - Tableau Next Dashboard Experience [Reposted]

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2026-04-10
- **Format:** Video · 28 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Sigma; Tableau (dashboards, data modelling, pulse)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/re-upload---tableau-next-dashboard-experience-reposted
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8zTKmEQc7o

I'm back in Tableau Next to finish the visualisation arc by exploring its dashboarding capabilities. I build a dashboard from existing visualisations, test metrics, lists, toggles, text, buttons, actions and containers, and compare the layout experience against Sigma before setting up the next videos on Data Cloud.

## Key takeaways

- Pulse-style metrics in Tableau Next are standalone objects: you can drop them onto a dashboard as equal citizens, but you can't use a metric definition to build a visualisation.
- Dashboard interactivity is largely automatic because the semantic model drives cross-filtering by default, removing the old cross-data-source action setup.
- Tableau Next supports structured containers and linked (synchronised) assets but does not allow floating or overlaying objects.
- Buttons and actions are far simpler to set up than in Tableau Desktop, supporting navigation to another dashboard, another page or a URL without building hidden sheets or set actions.
- The grid layout feels constrained compared to Sigma's fluid canvas, which auto-rearranges objects and reclaims space when you move things around.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Recap and Salesforce documentation
- 1:15 Metrics inside semantic models
- 3:19 Starting a dashboard and rant on hacks
- 5:45 Pages, panels and properties
- 6:57 Adding visualisations to the canvas
- 10:26 Adding metrics and layout limits
- 11:49 Sigma layout comparison
- 13:33 Lists, toggles and text
- 17:02 Buttons and actions
- 18:51 Containers and linked assets
- 22:26 Preview, save and interactivity
- 23:29 Wrap-up and next steps

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/re-upload---tableau-next-dashboard-experience-reposted

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