Tableau Filters — Operation orders and examples

Wenxuan Zhang
4 min readSep 9, 2022

There are 6 types of tableau filters. Understanding operational order of filters can of vital importance. This article is going to briefly explain the 6 types of filters and share 3 examples to differentiate the subtle details of different filters.

Extract Filters and Data Source Filters applied on extract or live data source. Context Filter, which is a special category filter that serves as Context, i.e. a filter applied before other filters on worksheets.

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