While building a line chart, you drag the green, continuous field Order Date to the Columns shelf, creating a horizontal time axis. After right-clicking the pill and changing it to Discrete, which immediate change appears in the worksheet?
The horizontal axis disappears and individual year headers replace it above the view.
Tableau groups the dates into equal-width bins and displays a histogram.
The field is automatically aggregated with MIN(), so only the earliest date remains.
A new, automatic color legend appears, assigning a distinct color to each year.
Continuous (green) fields create axes in the view. When a date field such as Order Date is converted to discrete (blue), the axis is replaced by separate headers-one column for each member (for example, 2019, 2020, 2021). No automatic binning, aggregation change, or color legend modification occurs simply because the field was switched from continuous to discrete.
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