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    Be able to lock any visualization regardless of layout

    Currently, only certain visualizations can be locked and in many cases you may want to lock different visualizations and that isn't possible.
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Enable Y-axis reset in WebPlayer

    Currently cannot reset the range of Y axis after change to auto on web player Here are the steps to recreate this scenario: See pic. 1 Scatter plots with Curve fits See pic 2 The Y-axis has fixed min and max -30 to 130 I can change the set...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Calculated values or document properties in annotations

    Annotations are nice way to overlay contents on top of visualizaitons. It can also be a great way to create infographics and easier to place labels on landing pages, dashboards or reports. Add calculated values or ${labels} on annotations. Here is...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Color the empty cells in Cross table

    Hi, We would like to be able to color the empty cells in the cross table. At the moment there is no way to color them by any role. Regards,
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Variable Width on Bar Chart

    Would like to use the width of the bar in the Bar Chart plot to show the relative frequency or value range of the items in Category Axis. Or the sum of Sales as the height of the bar and the number of units sold as the width of the bar.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 8 Future Consideration

    Color Scheme doesn't retain custom colors

    It is nice to be able to create a color scheme with custom colors (using the colors coordianates). Now when you finish creating this color schema and want to reuse the color scheme you saved, all the colors you have created disapeare. It would be ...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    More detail in WebPlayer error messages

    As an administrator of Spotfire I would like to enable error messages for Web Player end-users to be more informative or descriptive. Example many times when the chain of permissions in library is not complete we get screenshots depicting an issue...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Improved Label Placement in Charts

    Currently there are situations where the auto-placement of the labels in a chart is not intuitive. If possible, a large improvement for this would be to compare the values and position the labels according to the values. For instance, if there are...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    The ability to lock column width on Cross Table Headers

    Currently, if the labels in a Cross Table change with the data then the header width isn't locked and as new data comes it looks terrible. There should be some sort of ability to lock the header width to a fixed size that doesn't change.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to hide empty levels in treemap hierarchies

    The new Treemap vis shows empty levels as "Level n", when in the hierarchy there is an entry on a level below.I would suggest, that the user can chose, whether to see these empty levels, or not.The Cross Table shows the same behaviour.I would like...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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