After you copy several PNG icons into a new folder inside My Tableau Repository\Shapes, you want Tableau to recognize them and map each Sub-Category value in a scatter plot to one of the icons. Inside the Edit Shape dialog, which specific action enables the new icons to appear so you can assign them to the marks?
Click Import Images to browse to each PNG and apply them to the marks individually.
Press Reload Shapes, select the new folder's palette, then assign the icons to the Sub-Category members.
Change the repository location under File > Preferences to the folder path, then restart Tableau to load the icons.
Activate the Automatic shape legend so Tableau detects and applies the new icons without further steps.
Tableau only reads custom shape files that are stored inside folders located in My Tableau Repository\Shapes. When new image files are added while Tableau is open, the Edit Shape dialog does not load them automatically. Choosing the Reload Shapes button refreshes the list of shape palettes, making the new folder (and its PNG icons) visible. After reloading, you can select the folder, highlight the desired icons, and click Assign Palette to map each Sub-Category member. The other choices either reference features that do not exist in this dialog (Import Images), processes that are unnecessary (changing the repository path and restarting), or steps that Tableau cannot perform automatically without user intervention.
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