Ideas

Allow end-users to interactively choose several elements in a quick filter and lump everything else into "other". For example, take a list of states and the number of records in each. If the input is (two fields shown to explain the concept):   Arkansas - 100Alaska - 100Arizona - 100... (assume 100 for every state)West Virginia - 100Wyoming - 100Total: 5,000  Let's say a user is very non-technical, and not even really a Tableau novice, and they want the following combination in the dashboard: …

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Make fonts in Sheet titles of packaged workbooks scalable in Browser windows so that Dashboards/title fonts can be adjusted to optimal screen size for different size monitors and user applications, rather than asking the author to declare/select a fixed screen size from the lower left dashboard menu. Authors supplying PWBs to clients cannot always know how/what equipment the client will want to use.

This would make writing calculations much faster:   Fast forward to the 18:00 mark: https://vimeo.com/36579366   This is what the code writing experience should be like. If users received live feedback as they wrote the code, it would make the learning experience easier. You could make a mini-cross tab area where the results of the formula display. This could appear when you maximize the window. You could also add dialog boxes when you drag and drop a function in the code window. That could help …

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