I'm looking forward to working with the new Filled Maps chart type.  The new features' notes indicate that this is available at the country and state/province level worldwide and for the U.S. at the county level.  I expect there will be a lot of demand for this at other levels as well - eg, sub-provincial in other countries - and hope that some mechanism will be made available for users to define their own regions via some form of a polygon definition file.  I don't know where or how this geographic information is stored in V7, but I see this as perhaps an external utility or process that prepares and stores the user's own data, somewhat analogous to how custom shapes can be set up in the My Tableau Repository\Shapes folder.

1. Server-side KPIs - I would love to see these added as quite an amount of work has been invested in building a robust set of KPIs in our data source for reporting purposes, however Tableau doesn't show them at all.
2. Folders for sets - It is possible to group measures and calculations into folders, and Tableau honours these. It is possible to do the same with sets, however these folders are ignored by the application.

Oh - one more suggestion.

Allow different chart types on the dual axis reports.  It would be great to see a monthly budget/actual bar chart with a cumulative line chart off the other axis as can be done in Excel (see attached)

Andrew, on that last one all you have to do is A) select "Multiple mark types" from the Marks card pulldown menu, or B) pick a different mark type from either of the dual-axis measure pill pulldown menus.

James, I believe in most cases to recreate the Excel chart in Tableau would be a little more involved because Tableau does not easily produce clustered bars, and if Budget and Actual are separate measures, then the data would at least need to duplicated because you can only have one Measure Values/Names.

I think the attached is easy to do in Tableau, as James said, but if you want a closer representation of your Excel chart, I do not believe Tableau was designed to create that exact view, with clustered bars, and would be more involved to replicate it in Tableau.

Thank you both for your feedback.

I agree with Joe. Doing Tableau dual-axis charts has some real limits. It seems to me that much of the difficulty could be solved if each axis could have its own independent Mark Shelf & secondary data source Measured Values/Names could be configured and displayed on this second shelf -- but then I'm user, not a programmer, so I'm clueless as to how difficult this would be.

Each axis does have its own independent marks shelf, but Joe makes a good point about MN/MV being singular.

James, I guess I wasn't clear about what I was suggesting. I realize each axis has what you consider to be independent marks shelves, but what I mean is a completely separate set of marks shelves that could use the secondary data sources Measure Values/Names to display those sets of data without having to use calculated fields and parameters as a work around -- especially since these calculated fields do NOT pass through the number formats from the original measure. Specifically what we do a lot is show a set of measures on one axis with a mix of $ # and % formats. When we try to then add the same sorts of data from a secondary data source we can't do it using Measure Values/Names and have to resort to calculated fields, which makes it impossible to mix number formats -- at least I haven't figures a work around, and support didn't have one either. (Maybe Joe or someone else has a solution.) Hope this was clearer. Thanks for help with this problem. Shawn