1. Curator Styles

    2. Homepage

    3. Titles and Toolbars

    4. Group Overrides

    1. Pages Overview

    2. Tiles

    3. Error Pages

    4. SSRS Embedding

    5. Explorer

    6. User Customized Metrics

    7. Box Embedding

    8. Forms

    1. Tutorials

    2. Search

    3. Managing Menus

    4. Menu Items

    5. Keywords

    6. Files

    7. Notices

    8. Loading Screens

    1. Embedded Tableau Server Views

    2. Thumbnails

    3. Tagged Workbooks

    4. Favorites

    5. Email Subscriptions

    6. Data Export

    7. Download Workbook

    8. Share Workbook

    9. Custom Views

    10. Pause/Resume Changes

    11. Dashboard Titles

    1. Filters

    2. Parameters

    3. Apply Button

    4. Filter Categories

    5. Hidden Sticky Filters/Parameters

    6. Specify Filter Sheet

    7. Mark Commenting

    8. URL Action Overrides (Link Target)

    9. Hidden Dashboards

    10. Replace Dashboard URLs

    11. Site Switcher

    12. Cache Filter/Parameter Options

    1. Data Manager Basics

    2. Web Data Connector (WDC)

    3. Import Data

    4. Connecting to Data Manager

    5. User Commenting

    6. Field Calculations

    1. Overview and Enabling

    2. Report Builder: Scheduled Reports Option

    3. Report Builder: Email Option

    4. Report Builder: Watermark Text

    1. Automatic License Provisioning

    2. Just-in-time (JIT) Provisioning

    3. Users and Groups

    4. Reset User's Password

    5. User Sync and Membership Sync Overview

    6. Custom Attributes

    1. Frontend User Permissions

    2. Password Change

    3. Password Reset

    4. Password Expiration and Complexity

    5. Bypass Link-preview Security

    1. E-mail Configuration

    2. System Notifications

    1. Force SSL

    2. Trusted Tickets

    3. Basic HTTP Authentication

    1. Import / Export

    2. Backend Users

    3. Frontend Users

    4. Updating License Key

    5. Linux: Cron Troubleshooting

    6. Filesystem Permissions

    7. Backend Administrator Password Reset

    8. Dependency Updates

    9. Manual Restoration of Curator Backup

    10. Updating Curator Logging

    11. Third Party Cookies

    12. Troubleshooting Load Times

    13. Tableau API Debugging

    14. Curator Backup

    15. Taking a Manual Full Backup

    1. System Upgrade

    2. Disable Curator Upgrades

    3. Offline Upgrades (Airgapped)

    4. Troubleshooting Upgrades

    1. Scripts

    2. Commands

    3. Subscription Routing

    1. Curator API Overview

    2. Integration

    3. Curator API

    4. Tableau API

    5. Content

    6. User API

    1. Username Mapping

Documentation: Advanced Dashboard Features

Specify Filter Sheet

Curator provides the ability to get your filter options from the data. The standard dynamic filtering looks at the first worksheet loaded. However, you may have multiple data sources compromising your dashboard or a slow-loading worksheet you want to avoid. Use the steps below to specify a worksheet to improve load time and narrow the scope of the data that Curator has to retrieve to populate your filter values.

To enable Specify Filter Sheet:

  1. Navigate to the backend of the system (e.g. https://www.site.com/backend).
  2. Log in if prompted.
  3. Click on Tableau > Dashboards in the left-hand menu.
  4. Click on the Dashboard you want to edit.
  5. Click the Misc tab.
  6. Toggle on the Specify Filter Sheet option in the Filters & Parameters section.

This will display two additional fields "Filter Worksheet" and "Use Summary Data". The "Filter Worksheet" field will allow you to specify the name of the worksheet to pull from. The switch for "Use Summary Data" uses a quicker API call that pulls from the Summary Data rather than all of the Underlying Data. To determine if what you're looking for is in the Summary Data you will need to View Data within your workbook on Tableau Desktop.