So there’s very flexible formatting capability with this Navigation object. And if you choose Image, you can choose a custom image on your own computer. A couple of other options you have available to you– you can change the button style from the default, which is Text, to Image. We’re navigating users between sheets and dashboards. You’re simply picking, where do you want this button to navigate the user to? I suspect that’s why Tableau changed the name of that object. The main one is this Navigate To dropdown. To change both its format as well as what it is being linked to, click this down arrow that appears when you select the object and click Edit Button. It’s grayed out until you actually link it to something. That’s what the button looks like by default. I will change that object to be floating and drag Navigation onto the view, kind of put it up here in the header. To use that Navigation object, you’d simply drag it onto the view. Here at Playfair Data TV, we always use the latest version of Tableau, so the object is called Navigation. So depending on the version of the software you have, this will either be called Button or Navigation. Note, however, that in 2020.1, Tableau began naming this new object Navigation. The Button dashboard object came over with the introduction of Tableau Desktop 2018.3. Option number one, I’m going to start with the newest technique to add a button to a Tableau dashboard, which is to use a Button or Navigation object. Those are the two views, and I’m going to show you a couple of ways to link between those two. I’m just going to show you the two views very quickly and give you a quick tour of this dashboard. I’ll share a link to download this and the related content below the video, but in case you’re not familiar with this dashboard, it has two primary views, an Explanatory view and an Actionable view. For all three of these techniques, we’re going to be using this Super Sample Superstore dashboard. Hi, this is Ryan with Playfair Data TV and in this video, I’m going to show you three different techniques for adding a button to a Tableau dashboard.
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