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    nested scrolling on visualizations

    Users find it frustrating when the entire webpage scrolls while they are trying to scroll through a visualization using the mouse wheel. To improve the user experience, the visualization should scroll exclusively when the mouse is over it. This de...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Vertical lines with categorical x-axis

    I am creating financial charts, and would like to add vertical lines at certain dates. This is only available if the x-axis is set to 'Continuous', but my financial data does not contain data for weekends/holidays, and setting to 'Continuous' fill...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Debugger for IronPython

    It would be very helpful if there was a debugger for IronPython scripts. Otherwise you always have to tediously set print statements
    10 months ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    Public Web Service to check status Scheduled Updates (external updates)

    We make use of the public web service UpdateAnalysisService to trigger scheduled updates externally after a data refresh. Sometimes the scheduled updates fail. The only way to check this, is to manually log on at the Spotfire Server, go to the Sch...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 2 Future Consideration

    Choose which columns get grand totals in cross-table

    We have a cross table where some columns (e.g. sales total) benefit from a grand total, whereas others (e.g. the sales rank of a product against other products) do not. We would like to have the option to choose whether a column gets a total. Ad...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to show and hide document pages via actions

    it would be really helpful if there were actions to show/hide the pages within an analysis document. This would be a bit like setting the visible property of a worksheet in Excel. This could be a dynamic action. This would enable a master page of ...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    Expanded control of Curve/Line labels

    It would be extremely helpful if users can be granted significantly greater control over the formatting and placement of labels placed on plots. It is very common that labels are either cut off, in the wrong location (sometimes directly swapped wi...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Add the ability to format the date fields used on chart axis

    The main reason for this request is for charts visualising data on a weekly level. Currently, only the week number is available; it would be nice if there were some formatting options for this i.e. instead of week number show the first day of the ...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Already exists

    Please add version history function to Library Administration in Analyst

    Function to manage version history of library contents was added in Ver 12.0, but this function is available only on Web Admin UI. Please add this function to Library Administration in Analyst as well. Regards,
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Likely to implement

    Preserve Format into Excel files: Automation Services Job Builder "Export Data to File"

    SPF-I-24 "Export any table to Excel with preserved number formatting, layout and style." was implemented in Spotfire Analyst 14.0 LTS but also needs to be implemented for Automation Services Job Builder "Export Data to File" task. As of version 14...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration
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