A Tableau user is creating a map view to show sales totals for different countries. To make countries with higher sales appear in a darker color and countries with lower sales appear lighter, which action should the user perform?
Drag the 'Sales' measure to the Color property on the Marks card.
Drag the 'Country' dimension to the Color property on the Marks card.
From the Format menu, select Shading to apply a gradient to the worksheet background.
Right-click the 'Sales' measure in the Data pane and select 'Assign Palette'.
The correct action is to drag the 'Sales' measure to the Color property on the Marks card. When a continuous measure, like 'Sales', is placed on Color, Tableau automatically applies a quantitative (sequential or diverging) color palette. This creates a gradient where the intensity of the color corresponds to the value of the measure, effectively coloring countries with higher sales darker and those with lower sales lighter.
Dragging the 'Country' dimension to Color would assign a distinct, categorical color to each country, which is not suitable for showing a quantitative range. Using the Format Shading option colors the worksheet background, pane, or headers, not the data marks themselves. The option to 'Assign Palette' by right-clicking a measure in the Data pane does not exist.
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