Why won't my table headers show? Why are they concatenating? - Quick Tableau Tip!

While with a client, my colleague Jules and I had the same issue on the same day. Puzzled, we reached out to the wider Information Lab team and learnt something completely new! I'll explain below.

The issue was this; 

Basically, if you have 7 dimensions on the 'rows' shelf, the first two get concatenated, or disappear. But when you taken off the last one and make it six, it reappears. 

Was this a bug or by design? 

Tableau rockstars to the rescue!

André was the first to respond, knocking it out of the park with the solution. Check out the .gif below.

Chris Love also chipped in to inform us that if you're looking to include 16 or more columns, then the .xml is a great place to go.

Pretty cool, huh! It is if, like Jules and I, you weren't aware of this. Of course, this is probably a Google-able issue, and one that is easy to find online.