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improve button (action control) appearance

One of our customers wants the button (action control, typically added in a text area) appearance to be improved. For this use case the button is associated to an IronPython script that could take a while to run. Regarding the behavior of the Acti...
2 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area / User Experience Future Consideration

tooltips for property controls

Adding a tooltip to propery controls on text areas speeds up the process of authoring leaving as optional the need to add a label next to each document propery to identify which document property the property control is tied to
9 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area Future Consideration

Edit text area window to show when display monitor is no longer present where this window was

Let's say I am working with two monitors and I place my text area editor on a second monitor, but then get my laptop and go to a customer to show the workflow. The window is no longer visible! What I need to do in Windows 11 (but not everybody kno...
10 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area Future Consideration

Separate horizontal and vertical auto-sizing controls

Allowing to separately use auto-sizing or manually defining control size horizontally or vertically allows, for example, to expand lists vertically if their length changes but without affecting its width. Equally it would allow horizontal expansio...
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Text Area Future Consideration

Retain the formatted HTML code when changing the text area

If you style a page in an analysis using HTML and then make and save any changes in the text area, the HTML code is then no longer formatted. All lines are no longer indented. This makes the HTML code illegible. Please keep the format.
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Text Area Future Consideration

formatting

When you create a worksheet template, the line spacing between related items is too wide for a hard line break (Enter only). Therefore, we now use a soft line break (Shift + Enter) to partially close the line spacing. However, this method may br...
almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area Needs Info

Sorting column names in a List Box

When creating a List Box we want to change the order of the column names in the List Box. When selecting "Set property value through: Column selection" the order of the names is set, and the order cannot be changed. We would like a Sorting ...
almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area Future Consideration

Change behaviour of links to files in text areas

Summary: If you place a link to a file that is not accessible for the web player service in a text area, the whole text area can take very long to render. This should be changed so that the text area renders instantly (but the link does not work)....
almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area Future Consideration

Making duplicated sheets independent

When duplicating sheets, the text areas becomes duplicated and change in one will affect others. However, it would be great to make it possible to make them independent
about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area Already exists

Text Area slider needs to be data driven - min/max via expression

I need to set the Text Area slider control min and max values dynamically based on data properties. Can you allow those values to be set via an Expression? It sounds pretty simple.
about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area Future Consideration
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