While examining a bar chart, you want to combine the "Office Supplies", "Furniture", and "Technology" category marks so they display as a single, new category in the view and are added back to the Data pane for future use. Which workflow meets this requirement?
Convert Category to a bin, then assign the three values to the same bin range.
Drag the Category dimension onto itself in the Data pane and choose Combine Fields.
Create a set from the three categories and add the set to the view.
Ctrl-select the three category marks in the bar chart and click the Group icon on the tooltip/context menu.
When you Ctrl-select (or Shift-select) the individual marks in the view, Tableau activates the paper-clip icon on the tooltip/context menu. Choosing Group (or right-clicking the selection and selecting Group) creates a discrete group field that immediately replaces the selected marks with one combined member in the chart and writes a new group dimension to the Data pane. Grouping from headers can achieve the same result, but only if the headers-not the axis-are selected. Creating a set or a combined field does not create a grouped dimension; bins are limited to numeric, continuous fields, so they cannot group string categories.
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