One of the most impactful development tips I got during TC24 was a very small one, but I have used it a lot since then.
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What is you have just finished your dashboard, and your manager/client/voice in you head tells you: I think the color of the charts need to be changed to pink…
![](https://antichaos.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/afbeelding-1024x445.png)
Please change all colors to pink….
Now you need to change the color of each sheet to the same color
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A tedious task, especially if you know in the back of your head this will need to be changed again, and probably again, …
Solution: define a color field
The solution is extremely simple: create a new calculated field with just a single string-value, like this:
Drag this once on the color shelf of every sheet you need to synchronize this color, and select just the exact color you need.
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The color will automatically change on each sheet, since Tableau automatically assigns the same color to the same dimension-members:
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With some more work you can even create a user-selectable color-style!
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