You want to visualise the relationship between Sales and Profit for every Sub-Category in a scatterplot. After dropping Sales on Columns and Profit on Rows, the view still shows only a single mark. Which single step will create separate dots for each Sub-Category?
Drag Profit to Color so the marks are coloured by profitability.
Change the view to a dual-axis chart and synchronise the axes.
Drag the Sub-Category dimension to the Detail shelf on the Marks card.
Convert both Sales and Profit from continuous to discrete fields.
A scatterplot requires at least two continuous measures (Sales and Profit) and a dimension to slice the measures into multiple marks. Dragging Sub-Category to the Detail shelf tells Tableau to draw a separate mark for every member of that dimension, turning the lone mark into a cloud of points. Converting measures to discrete, colouring by Profit, or using a dual-axis chart do not add the needed dimensional level of detail, so they will not generate individual Sub-Category dots.
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