Prevent charts from being clickable or hoverable
Discover a simple trick that you can use to stop users clicking on or hovering over your charts on a Tableau dashboard
How To Prevent Users Clicking or Hovering Charts on your Dashboard
Sometimes you have a chart that you've placed on your dashboard that you don't want your users to be able to click on, having a headline number is a good example of this and even if you disable tooltips and ensure there are no dashboard actions assigned to the chart you'll still find that they chart is hiighlighted as you hover over it and users can still click it.
There's a really simple way to prevents this - simply add a blank dashboard item with a transparent background and no border over the top of your chart(s) and this will prevent this from happening!
Check out how to do this in the video below: