Cycle Field in Tableau
Basavaraj Goni
People, Product, Process and Technology Consultant @ Delta Airlines || Ex-Deloitte | A-CSPO
It is one of the hidden option/field for me, It's been 3 years I am working with Tableau and fortunately I used it today!! Bingo.
What is cycle field: As the name suggests, it is a cycle of changes on the view. It helps to swap the fields in the view with ease. For example the field in row shelf will move to color shelf and vice-versa.
Navigation: On Toolbar, Click on Analysis then Cycle Fields.
Use Case: I think we can use with Stacked Bars/ Word cloud etc.
When not so useful: When we have multiple measures and multiple dimensions on the views, I feel not that helpful, but nevertheless can give a try.
When to use?: When we want to see how quickly the view looks with changing different fields, before taking the final call on the view.
How to use: Consider sample view as below. I have taken Dept in Rows, Sales on Columns and Region on colors.
When I click on Analysis then Cycle fields following view is generated. Notice the color shelf.
Feel free to drop a comment if you used in any of the business scenario.