Calendar

Show your Tableau dates as events on a calendar you can view by year, month or week.

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About Calendar

Calendar shows your Tableau dates as events on a calendar you can view by year, month or week. Drag in a start date, then add an end date and a type to color your events.

Use it for team schedules, release plans, time off, deadlines or any list of dated events. Your users can switch between views, move from one period to the next, and hover any event for its details, right inside your dashboard.

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Key features

Everything you need

Year, Month and Week views, with buttons so users can switch, or one fixed view
Events colored by type, with an optional end time and a label
Opens on today, the next event, or the first event
Tooltips with any extra fields from Detail or Tooltip
Week start, weekend days, 12h or 24h time and colors for each view

Best used for

When Calendar shines

Team schedules, meetings and time off
Release plans, deadlines and milestones
Any list of dated events

Setup

Setup in Tableau

Two short phases: add the Viz Extension to your workbook once, then drop the relevant fields on the new Marks Card.

Phase 1

Add the extension to Tableau

Open the Marks card and choose Add Extension On any Tableau worksheet (Desktop, Cloud or Server), open the Marks card dropdown and select "Add Extension". A new dialog will list available Viz Extensions.
Pick the Exchange listing or upload the .trex file Either choose "Access Extensions on the Exchange" for the free hosted build, or click "Access local extensions" and upload the .trex file you received with your LaDataViz license.
Review and accept the data-access prompt Tableau will ask you to allow the extension to read the worksheet's aggregated data. Accept it — a new Viz Extension Marks Card will appear next to Color, Size, Tooltip, etc.

Tableau's official Viz Extensions guide

Phase 2

Configure Calendar

Drag a Date/Datetime field on Start Time.
(Optional) Drag a Date/Datetime field on End Time. If omitted, events with a time last 1 hour, and events with only a date last all day.
(Optional) Drag a Dimension on Type to color events, and a Dimension on Text to label each event.
(Optional) Drag fields on Detail or Tooltip to show extra columns in the event tooltip.
Click Format Extension to configure the calendar.

Security & Privacy

Enterprise-grade by design

Every LaDataViz Viz Extension is built so your data never leaves Tableau. Here's exactly how we keep it that way.

No data is ever stored As a recognized Tableau Partner, your data is never stored anywhere — not even temporarily. Everything runs in your browser.

Only aggregated data The extension cannot access your data source’s raw fields. It only reads the aggregated marks the Worksheet already displays.

Cloud or on-premise Use the hosted cloud version, or deploy a packaged build inside your own environment with no internet connection required.

Trusted by Tableau Listed on the official Tableau Exchange, with free tiers hosted by Tableau themselves and reviewed against their security guidelines.

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