By: Eric Parker
Eric Parker lives in Seattle and has been teaching Tableau and Alteryx since 2014. He's helped thousands of students solve their most pressing problems. If you have a question, feel free to reach out to him directly via email. You can also sign up for a Tableau Office Hour to work with him directly!
Tableau is a wonderful data visualization tool, but like any software, it has limitations and idiosyncrasies which make it difficult to work with at times. Thankfully, Tableau is aware of this and even created an ideas forum to crowdsource feature requests from users.
In this video I talk about 10 ideas I would love to see Tableau incorporate into their products. Links to all of the ideas discussed in the video are found below. You can go to the ideas pages and upvote there if you agree that they are ideas Tableau should pursue! Have your own ideas? Please comment them! We'd love to get some momentum on great ideas Tableau would incorporate and maybe this OneNumber community can help with some upvotes! You can also suggest your own ideas in the ideas forum (just double-check the idea doesn't exist already).
Here is a link to the proper case video I mentioned when discussing idea #4: https://youtu.be/G1gxFGelgmY
Tableau Ideas Links
Tableau Ideas Community Link: Tableau Ideas Community: https://community.tableau.com/s/ideas
1. Edit Multiple Filters at Once: https://community.tableau.com/s/idea/0874T000000H9wFQAS/detail?t=1643923735295
2. Format Multiple Dashboard Objects at Once: https://community.tableau.com/s/idea/0874T000000HBW9QAO/detail
3. Better Ability to Display Images on the Web: https://community.tableau.com/s/idea/0874T000000HAADQA4
4. Create a PROPER() Function:
https://community.tableau.com/s/idea/0874T000000HBePQAW/detail
5. Ability to Pivot Split Values / Calculated Fields: https://community.tableau.com/s/idea/0874T000000HAFIQA4
6. Stop Making Functions Overwrite Each Other in Calculated Fields: https://community.tableau.com/s/idea/0874T0000000OPGQA2/detail
7. Ability to Join Tableau Server Data Sources: https://community.tableau.com/s/idea/0874T000000HCn7QAG/detail
8. Retain Formatting When Swapping Data Sources: https://community.tableau.com/s/idea/0874T000000HAqFQAW/detail
9. Double-Click to Adjust Column Width: https://community.tableau.com/s/idea/0874T000000HA9vQAG/detail
10. Add a Dark Mode!: https://community.tableau.com/s/idea/0874T000000HB6aQAG/detail