Hi, Having trouble in the tableau course. The "Adding Interactive Filters for Improved Analysis (3:54)" video provides instruction as to how you can apply one filter to multiple sheets, which begins at approximately 1:25 in the video. For some reason, tableau is not allowing me to apply the filter to chart 3. In the "Apply Filter to Worksheets" dialog box under the worksheets column chart 3 is greyed out and under the relationship column for chart 3 it says none. But I have that chart in my dashboard, so I'm not sure how there is no relationship.

*Update* I figured out the problem. I was creating new worksheets instead of duplicating the first worksheet. When I duplicated the first worksheet and turned it into Chart 3, I was able to add chart three to the universal audiobook name filter. *New Question* Do you always have to duplicate sheets in order to filter dashboards across multiple charts/worksheets in tableau? Or should you be able to do this filtering exercise with newly created sheets as opposed to duplicating? And why?

You don't need to duplicate sheets for filter across sheets. To filter all worksheets on a dashboard, for example, show the filter on the dashboard. Then, on the dashboard, click into the filter settings and apply to all sheets on the dashboard. It's simple :-)

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