Our green mark label has floated right to the bottom of the green pie slice. See what happens when I exclude EMEA (the orange slice): Now that you’ve freed those marks to float around wherever you put them, they are free to float into places you don’t want them (e.g. Lather, rinse, repeat and we’ve got a nicely labeled pie chart: As you can see, in the below screen shot, I’m bringing it inside the pie: This method is as simple as clicking on the label you want to reposition - wait until you get the following cross quadruple arrow cursor (at least that’s what I call it): “Click directly on the mark and set it free to be wherever you choose.” This brings us to label-positioning tactic #2 (from above): And herein lies the rub: How do we get those mark labels inside the pie? Or anywhere else for that matter? Option 2: Set the Mark Free Apparently, when faced with a pie, Tableau knows no direction (which is sometimes how I feel when faced with pie … but I digress). You can try the above methods all you want, but those labels aren’t going to budge a bit.
I’ll leave it to you to explore the best option for your scenario.įinally, we have the pie chart: one in which labels are often used! This option has overridden the default, therefore mark labels can overlap our line (as seen above). Now, Tableau has moved every label to the bottom left of each point on the line chart. This time, changing the alignment in the same way produces the following: I created a line graph to show sales across months, and after dragging the Sales pill to Measures (or choosing Show Mark Labels in the Labels button), we have the same options for our line graph: If you said left horizontal alignment and bottom vertical alignment, you’d be right. See if you can guess which options produce this result … We have both horizontal and vertical mark label alignment options. However, by clicking the drop-down menu, we have the option to choose our mark alignment. Navigating to the Label button reveals that Tableau has defaulted the alignment to automatic. In the below example, a bar chart is labeled at the rightmost edge of each bar.
However, as with many decisions in life, these two options have different long-term effects as well as different effects depending on which chart type you’re using.
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