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    Spotfire Analyst - New window for tools / writing expressions etc

    We always need to close windows and open them again when it comes to writing custom expressions (within charts or calculating columns) for example, and it blocks the main Spotfire window, not practical. When a dual monitor configuration, no other ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    A way programmatically to migrate and change the types to solve the problem

    This is related to Support ticket 2559163. The exception is thrown before constructor deserialization, so the developer can't catch that exception. The fix is to throw the exception when deserializing the explicit immutable property.
    4 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 To be Reviewed

    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...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Allow emails to distribution lists

    Manually maintaining each dashboard's email list doesn't make sense as many are redundant and already captured within distribution lists. Currently Automation Services strips distribution lists out of the email field.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Enable Box Plot with In-Database Connections

    The box plot cannot be currently used for an in-database data connection. The reason as given on the Spotfire documentation is as follows: "The box plot requires both aggregated and non-aggregated data and has not yet been adjusted to handle in-db...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Fetch and render the Description field from the column items in the Spotfire Library

    The understanding of what is displayed in a column is very important. When columns from information links within the Spotfire Library have a description set, it is not possible as per Spotfire 10.3.3 to fetch this information and display it in ana...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Add ability to change label font color independently of other font colors

    I would like the ability to change the color of labels within a plot independently of the color of the other fonts. For example, have the axis labels be black but the label colors blue.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Support for timestamp with timezone data type

    Datasets from sources that use a timestamp with timezone field are read incorrectly in Spotfire. See: https://support.tibco.com/s/article/Values-in-a-column-of-type-Timestamp-with-timezone-are-different-from-original-values-when-imported-through-I...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Support Version Control on Clusters

    Our lower environments are clustered, and we would love to have version control enabled. Developers have no way to see the history of their views. This makes it difficult to identify what all has changed, aka what all they need to request be moved...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 4 To be Reviewed

    Add options for Area Chart Mod

    Add x and y gridlines, column sort order, color sort order, sliders and other options similar to what is available in a Bar Chart to the Area Chart Mod
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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