If you're in a rush while making a dashboard, maybe you forgot your mum's birthday and want to build her a quick dashboard or maybe your boss is upset you haven't done any work for 6 months and you want to create a dashboard to distract them from firing you, quick LODs may be your answer.

Prerequisites

YOU MUST already know LODs and what they are used for. Otherwise, how will you know what I am writing to you about. If you don't, fear not, another blog dedicated to LODs will be coming your way soon, young Tableau-er.

Quick LODs

Now that I am done with my intro and the prerequisites, I will explain how to make a quick LOD, saving you thousands of hours of manually LODing.

First, control click the measure you want.

Second, while still control and clicking, drag the measure onto the dimension you'd like to fix on.

Thirdly, sit back and relax with all your new found free time.

If a different aggregation is needed, the default aggregation of a measure can be changed.

Well, what are you doing still? Be free young Tableau-er!