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    Dynamic Variables in Annotation Text

    Is it possible to use dynamic variables in annotation? For example, I would love a callout annotation that could say "Sales in November were $XX", or even to be used for max/min values. This functionality does appear in some competing products.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    configure Analyst listening port via Administration manager => Preferences

    Please add capability to configure Analyst listening port(start from 8000) via Administration manager => Preferences, occasionally some of our customers need to change this to avoid conflict with other software. Currently the only way is to mod...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Document list of OS processes constituting TDV server

    A complete list of OS processes constituting TDV server needs to be documented in the Administration guide. It would make clear exact which OS processes should be monitored by a management tool, for example.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / monitoring 0 Future Consideration

    Allow excluding a column from the resulting view for Information Links

    When loading data from SQL or other external sources, the right hand panel labeled "Columns in Selected View" allows users to unselect fields that are not needed in the analysis. When loading data from an information link, the user is required to ...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    capability to search columns in "Line from Data Table" dialog

    Customer is asking for the capability to search columns in "Line from Data Table" dialog, in this use case there are lots of columns(1000~) and not sorted so it's very difficult to find the wanted column.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Statistica's help menu should have a Web version

    If you were to look up in Google if a Statistical test is possible in Statistica, you only get results from other sites including JMP but not Statistica since we don't have our help documentation online . See Attached. This is a low hanging fruit ...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    show boxplot x axis column name on the top left corner of statistics table

    Please add option to show boxplot x axis column name on the left top corner of statistics table. See attached screenshot. Using annotation may achieve similar but it's difficult to adjust the position, text size, box border, etc.
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Group from marked categories in Spotfire Consumer

    Group from marked categories feature is currently a feature that is only open to Business Author Licenses and Power Users. We want this feature to be available for web player license also. Reason: Business author license / Power User license allow...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 6 Unlikely to implement

    Cross Table Plot API needs updating for new formatting options in 7.6

    Now that we have control over the layout of individual columns, etc., in a cross table plot in Spotfire 7.6, the API should enable control of these. For example, we should be able to set individual column widths. As far as I can tell, the API only...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Scooter on Line Graphs

    It would be great to have a scooter to show the values/timestamp at different locations on the graph to compare values across multiple lines.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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