Sankey - Draggable

Create beautiful Sankey Diagrams and move the nodes around to create your perfect layout!

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About Sankey - Draggable

Enhance your data visualization with the Draggable Sankey Diagram! This extension allows you to dynamically represent and manipulate flows and relationships among your data.

With intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, users can easily rearrange nodes to improve the Sankey’s display. This simplifies analyzing and understanding the pathways of processes or transactions.

Sankey diagrams are excellent for showing volume flows between different stages or groups. The draggable feature improves this by enabling users to manually adjust the layout, which is crucial for increasing clarity and effectiveness of the visual representation.

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Key features

Everything you need

Drag the nodes around to reorder them
Complete customization of the chart (padding, size, color)
Highlight key paths and bottlenecks in processes or systems

Best used for

When Sankey - Draggable shines

Analyzing resource allocation and distribution
Understanding complex processes and identifying inefficiencies
Visualizing energy, material, or cost flows in a system

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 Sankey - Draggable

Drag two Dimensions on Level and a Measure on Size.
Click Format Extension to configure padding, size, and color.

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.

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