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    Improved Performance Against Local File System

    Improve TDV performance when running queries against Local File System (such as CSV files in local file system). File-Delimited adapter Local File Storage adapter
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Likely to implement

    Increase Zooming details

    Currently, the zooming ability in maps of Spotfire is not sufficient : we have 1 point per square meter. We would like to be able to zoom further to separate those points.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Labels outside the bars of a waterfall

    Currently the default Spotfire v7.6 waterfall visualization does not have the ability to place labels outside the bars. When there is a thin bar (as per the below visualization in the right side), labels are not displayed. The example on the left ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    Horizontal statistics table in box plot

    Following this idea which has been implemented: https://ideas.spotfire.com/ideas/ALP-I-25 I want to request having the statistics table being able to rotate horizontally as well. Similar to other lables in the box plot.
    3 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Auto-resize tables columns based on the screen size

    Given that we have Spotfire analysis containing table visualizations (table, cross-table, summary table etc.) and given that these analysis may be consumed from various screens sizes; desktop, tablets etc. Then we expect to the tables columns to a...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Support Navigation Properties in OData

    Navigation properties allow to represent semantical links between objects in OData. A link that is technically established as the translation of a foreign key - primary key relation could semantically mean different things. E.g. in banking the acc...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 To be Reviewed

    Support for Azure Data Lake Store for read and write capabilities

    TDV needs to be able to read and write files to Azure Data Lake Store. This is Microsoft's cloud version of HDFS that specializes in Big Data Analytical workloads.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data movement / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Coloring rule in cross table based on underlying data table

    Coloring rules are based on the rows in the cross table (and not on the rows in the underlying data table) - Grand total values in a cross tables are aggregated from the rows in the data tables. The user is unable to create a coloring rule based o...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Mark all visible rows instead of all filtered rows

    Using Ctrl-A, you can mark all filtered rows in a visualization. However, when there’s additional Data Limiting, this marks more rows than what is actually visible which I find rather unintuitive. Of course you can use the mouse to drag a rectangl...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Diagonal Axis labels

    Axis labels can only be horizontal or vertical. One better way to manage long axis labels is to have them diagonal as this would be best utilization of space and is more readable. This is already available in many other softwares.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration
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