Tableau Order of Operations | Common Tips, Errors, Solutions and Use Cases

By: Eric Parker

Eric Parker lives in Seattle and has been teaching Tableau and Alteryx since 2014. He's helped thousands of students solve their most pressing problems. If you have a question, feel free to reach out to him directly via email. You can follow him on LinkedIn or sign up for a Tableau Office Hour to work with him directly!

Do you struggle to get Tableau filters to work the way you want? Do FIXED expressions confuse you? Do you want Tableau to perform better?

If you want to get the most out of Tableau, you have to understand how the Order of Operations work! Check out the recording below where we cover:

• Data Source vs. Extract Filters

• Why Top Filters and FIXED LOD Expressions might misbehave

• Context vs. Dimension Filters

• Using Sets as Filters

• Filtering on Table Calculations

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Related Resources

• Example Tableau Public Workbook

• How and Why to Create Tableau Extracts

• Data Source vs Extract Filters

• Data Source Filters for Row-Level Security

• Logical Table Data Source Filters

• Why Isn’t My Top Filter Working in Tableau

• How FIXED LOD Expressions Work

• FIXED LODs Not Filtering (Dimension and Context Filters)

• Table Calculation Filters

• LOOKUP/FIRST/LAST Table Calculation Filters

• All Values in Context Filter Option
  

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