Today’s tip is about embedding YouTube videos and Soundcloud audio into a Tableau dashboard. It’s pretty simple. Scroll down below the viz for the instructions.
First, let’s get the YouTube video embedded.
How to add YouTube videos to your Tableau Dashboard?
1. Drag a Web Page object onto the dashboard.
2. When prompted for the URL, you want to grab the embed code:
3. Copy the string after the “src=“ and add "?rel=0&showinfo=0” onto the end of it. The URL should look like:
https: //www.youtube.com/embed/<text>.
Below are some of the options you can use in combination with the YouTube URL to customize it a bit more.
How to add SoundCloud audio to your Tableau Dashboard?
The process for embedding audio is much the same as adding video's
1. Go to the track on Soundcloud.
2. Click on the Share button.
3. When the share window appears, click on Embed at the top.
4. Scroll to the bottom and click on More Options.
5. Choose the size and check the Automatic play box.
6. Copy the embed code.
7. Select the text after the “src=“ and copy it
8. Add a Web Page object onto the dashboard.
9. Paste the copied text in the URL box.
Use Cases:
Can be useful to people who have short sightedness or blind , we can create voice overs for reports.
Can be used for educational purposes.
Create an alert to show the targets.
To highlight emergency of the situation in Health Industries.
I have applied this feature in one of my reports, you can view the same in here: https://public.tableau.com/profile/navyasree.potluri5017#!/vizhome/GameOfThrones_15621040232330/GameOfThrones
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