After I posted an article yesterday on seamless sheet swapping, I remembered I had found something interesting a while ago regarding the sheet swapping of packed bubble chart. The problem was that, one can't filter the packed bubble chart completely using the sheet selector.

The cause of the problem is due to no pills on Rows/Columns shelves. These are the gridless chart types. The solution was to add some "Blank" dimensions to Rows/Columns and thus the problem got fixed. Remember to right click the Blank dimension and un-check "Show Header".
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As sheet swapping gets popular, similar problems came up often:

The above technique applies to all the chart types with no rows/columns pills: Packed Bubble, Pie and Treemap etc.

Note that in this thread, Zen Master Jonathan Drummey mentioned that he has long found the issue and its solution. He even posted an idea in as early as 2011, which still remains active:

Hope this idea gets implemented one day. Before that day, we have to live with the above tricks.
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[Forward: I asked ChatGPT o1-mini who then wrote this. Hope it helps. All the credit and the blame go to ChatGPT.

I went over the plan and it looked decent. Whether it can be done in 30 days or not, it depends on the person and the time he spends on it.
Just came back from Tableau Conference 2022 at Las Vegas. What an exciting event! The most exciting thing is reuniting with old friends and meeting with the datafam people known online for years.

Attended first time the Tableau Visionary summit.
A little enhancement in the formula editor can make a big difference for whose who create formula all the time in Tableau. Here are my wishes for a future editor. 

Highlighting Syntax Words

Currently a formula in Tableau can look plain and a bit uninspiring.
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