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    Font size within Text areas does not adjust automatically based on varying screen size, resulting in unpleasant user experience

    I have a page which focuses on KPIs at Glance. The page comprises multiple text areas & Spotfire calculated values in it. Varying screen sizes of iPad, Desktop, Laptop result in unpleasant view of this page as font does not adjust automaticall...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Allow Side-By-Side Bars to Overlap

    Several users are disappointed that Spotfire doesn't have all the charting features available in Excel. One feature I'd like to see is the ability to overlap side-by-side bars. I know we can stack bars, but that is not what I'm talking about. The ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    make the intermediate ca certificate imported into spotfire server be used to build the certificate chain

    The command "config.bat import-code-signing-certificate" can import code signing certificate, root certificate and also intermediate ca certificate. However, intermediate ca certificate imported by above command isn't used to build certificate cha...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Mods 7 Future Consideration

    An idea to improve CustomVisualization loading performance

    So far, at least in WebPlayer, each time, when user switch back to our visualization from another page, all the HTTP content (js, css...) of the custom visual will be reloaded through GetResourceCore() API. The browser can't cache them as a normal...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Spotfire should allow in-place replacement of unavailable non-embedded data sources

    When a Spotfire report pulls in a data source in the data canvas that is not embedded and the source is no longer available, the user is unable to replace the data source in place without using the replace button at the top of the canvas, which re...
    11 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Add YearAndMonth and Trunc Funtion

    I need a year/month combination constantly for calculations like "get data between two months ago 1st of the month to the end of next month" Having either or both of these functions would make this task much easier. Yes, I can accomplish both toda...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Document property: slider controls need formatting options

    While building an analysis tool for my company I came across the need to use a number of document properties as inputs. In an effort to put some bounds on what the users could enter I decided to make these document properties as sliders, so I coul...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 2 Future Consideration

    Improve categorical coloring rules based on counts

    I don't think that Spotfire does this, and it does not look like it from my eyeballing. When determining the color mapping for a categorical column, Spotfire should first perform a count of all column values, then apply its "best" categorical colo...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Admins to post in-tool messages to all connected clients.

    To provide better user engagement and more efficient use of resources, especially in light of dynamically scaling down the number of active Spotfire servers in a cloud configuration, Spotfire Admins should be able to broadcast important messages t...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Reduce clicks to manage Data connections- Add Favorites

    Accessing data conenctions from the menu is tedious and many clicks and there is no ability to set favorites or carry on from last accessed folder. EVERY SINGLE TIMEDATA>DATA CONNECTIONS>FOLDER>FOLDER>....>Select>EDIT(or Doublecl...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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