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    Define Calculated Column in Information Link

    Any dynamic calculations which change by filtering cannot be defined in the Information Link. The only other option is to use Calculated Columns in the analysis, but this prevents reuse by different users and can impact consistency of the calculat...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Natively support kml files either as map layers or as data tables that can be shown on map charts

    KML files are commonly used to show features on a map. Being able to use them directly as map layers on a map chart, or otherwise natively support importing them as a data table to then show them on a map chart would be convenient.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    PI Connector to Spotfire

    PI Connector to Spotfire is not very useful. It hangs when a larger data set is selected and the connector does not allow for multiple queries at the same time. The PI connector needs to be more like the one that is on the Spotfire Streaming platform
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Planning to implement

    Increase max number of charaters in Tooltip

    Sometimes there is a need for comments to show up but you do not want to add a column for it and would like users to see extra comments in the tooltip instead. Currently the sentences get cut off if it exceeds max # of characters defined by Spotfire
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Hide line type on legend for lines and curves

    Help to generate a cleaner look to the legend. I do not not want to see the line type for my lines and curves. My end users will not have any benefit from knowing that the 4 lines I am showing are created using "Line From Column Values". It only m...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Allow View -> Visualization Properties to edit all visualizations at once

    At the moment the Tools -> Visualizations Properties (Preview) feature works well and allows to multi-select and multi-edit but only on the same page. We want to extend this to work on multiple pages at once, and also to have an "apply to all v...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Add Server and Area in the Information Designer window title

    When working with multiple Spotfire Analyst instances, connected to different environments, there is no instant way to know which server the Information Designer is linked to. This is very confusing. Having some more information like in the attach...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Permissions in Web UI

    In the web UI Data Catalog users can see Published Data, Integration and Data Stores, depending on their rights and privileges. Due to technical and compliance reasons in our company users of web UI must not have access to both Data Stores and the...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 3 Future Consideration

    Clear On Demand Data present in Visualizations when the marking limit exceeded

    I have a report that uses an on demand data table that is based on the elements marked in a visualization. The on demand is limited to returning data for up to 52 elements (Number of identifiers to limit data loading to). When the data is pulled a...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Running the application profiler without being logged on

    There is a command line parameter for the analyst client to run the application profiler unattended which is working fine. What is NOT working is running this setup via windows task scheduler without a user being logged on. You get an error then t...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration
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