8 months ago by Dan Jewett
Two things we regularly hear from the community related to their ideas for improving the product are: first, you want us to deliver features that make your life easier; and second, with almost 7,000 open ideas, you want visibility into what ideas are and aren’t being prioritized. We’re making progress on both things. And one area we need to work on is our communication about this progress.
When it comes to making the improvements you want, we care deeply about this. Last year, our Tableau teams worked to implement 31 ideas from the Ideas Forum across 20 features—adding to a total of 1,167 ideas released since we started the Ideas Forum. These include transformative ideas like Dynamic Axis Ranges, Dashed and Dotted Lines, and Multi-Row Calculations in Tableau Prep. Each of those ideas had more than 3,000 points in the forums. We’re committed to doing more–multi-fact analysis (the “meatball”), address geocoding, Apple Silicon support, and native sankeys are all in the works!
When it comes to transparency, we hear you. We need to do better. Last year we updated the status of more than 1,100 ideas in the forums. We also published insight into how our product teams work to include the community in its product development cycle. If you missed that blog, be sure to check it out. We know that we need to keep the momentum going, which is why we’ve set a goal to provide updates on more than 2,000 ideas this year. In Q1 2024 we updated the status of 727 ideas. We also increased the granularity of our reporting status categories for the community ideas, so that you can better understand where your ideas stand.
Moving forward, with each product release, we will summarize our progress against this goal so you can hold us accountable to our commitment to you–look for the first such update in our 2024.2 blog post announcement coming up this summer.
We are so thankful to have a community like you all who share your ideas and advocate for what you want in the product–thank you for helping us get better!
–Dan Jewett, SVP Product Management
Source: Your Questions Answered - highlights from QandA at Tableau Conference 2024
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