In a lot of cases when you right-click in a visualisation and select Properties, the corresponding tab in the visualisation property dialog is opened. Eg. when you do this on the color by selector, you automatically arrive at the Color tab.
In older Spotfire versions, this also worked when clicking on the header of a table visualisation, you arrived at the Columns-Tab. In SF7.11, this is not the case anymore. Please bring back this "shortcut". Also consider to implement this when right-clicking on the "data limiting" section in the legend, where you arrive at the Legend tab, but it should be the Data tab imho.