skills/tableau-workbook-authoring/resources/examples/mark-encoding.json

{
  "_description": "Configure mark type and color/text/detail encoding on a worksheet. Encodings go in pane > encodings (NOT inside pane > view > mark — that gets stripped by loadMetadataFromXml).",
  "_feature": "mark,encoding,color",
  "mark_node": {
    "_placement": "Inside worksheet > table > panes > pane",
    "type": "mark",
    "attrs": { "class": "Bar" }
  },
  "color_encoding": {
    "_placement": "Inside worksheet > table > panes > pane > encodings (NOT inside mark node)",
    "_warning": "WRONG placement: pane > view > mark > encoding — this gets stripped by loadMetadataFromXml",
    "type": "encodings",
    "children": [
      {
        "type": "color",
        "attrs": { "column": "[federated.XXXX].[none:Category:nk]" }
      }
    ]
  },
  "full_pane_example": {
    "_description": "Complete pane structure showing correct encoding placement",
    "type": "pane",
    "attrs": { "id": "2", "selection-relaxation-option": "selection-relaxation-disallow" },
    "children": [
      { "type": "view", "children": [{ "type": "breakdown", "attrs": { "value": "auto" } }] },
      { "type": "mark", "attrs": { "class": "Bar" } },
      {
        "type": "encodings",
        "children": [
          { "type": "color", "attrs": { "column": "[federated.XXXX].[none:Category:nk]" } },
          { "type": "text", "attrs": { "column": "[federated.XXXX].[sum:Sales:qk]" } },
          { "type": "lod", "attrs": { "column": "[federated.XXXX].[none:Region:nk]" } }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "notes": {
    "mark_class_values_PrimitiveType_ST": ["Automatic", "Text", "Shape", "Bar", "GanttBar", "Line", "Area", "Circle", "Square", "Pie", "Polygon", "Heatmap", "Multipolygon"],
    "encoding_types_in_pane_encodings": ["color", "size", "text", "shape", "lod", "tooltip", "path", "angle"],
    "color_format": "Hex values like #4e79a7",
    "setting_mark_type": "Change the 'class' attribute on the mark node inside panes > pane",
    "CRITICAL": "Encodings MUST be direct children of pane (inside an 'encodings' wrapper), NOT inside the mark node. Mark-level encodings are stripped by loadMetadataFromXml."
  }
}