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    How to realize different specification lines in the same visualization trellis by column and the specification can change by different column

    Hi Developers, Please refer to the attached template where we have a scatter plot representing 4 columns for the y-axis and trellised by column names. Each one of 4 y-axis parameters has different specification limits. But we found all the spec li...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Plot data from two tables in the same coordinate system without restructuring the data

    Sometimes I have two or more pairs of measures that I want to plot on the same chart like this: To do this in Spotfire today, you have to restructure the data so that there is only 1 set of x values and use Color by to "Line ID". Although this is ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Natively support kml files either as map layers or as data tables that can be shown on map charts

    KML files are commonly used to show features on a map. Being able to use them directly as map layers on a map chart, or otherwise natively support importing them as a data table to then show them on a map chart would be convenient.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add a summary totals etc to graphical table

    As an analyst I want to make a "grand total" bar in a graphical table
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Polygon marking in maps and scatterplots

    Sometimes I like to mark data in a polygon shape. I use Spotfire's Lasso marking for this, which is nice, but in some cases it would have been easier to make exact markings using a polygon marking mode to exactly click on the points of the polygon.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Increase max number of charaters in Tooltip

    Sometimes there is a need for comments to show up but you do not want to add a column for it and would like users to see extra comments in the tooltip instead. Currently the sentences get cut off if it exceeds max # of characters defined by Spotfire
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Hide line type on legend for lines and curves

    Help to generate a cleaner look to the legend. I do not not want to see the line type for my lines and curves. My end users will not have any benefit from knowing that the 4 lines I am showing are created using "Line From Column Values". It only m...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Trellis Tables

    Is it possible to trellis Tables? I need to show the zscore for many tests that can be bucketed into several different categories. My thought is that this could be accomplished in a similar fashion to trellis for a scatter plot. Once separated by ...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Create maps from MapInfo files

    I have maps files built using MapInfo and I would like to import these maps in Spotfire in the same way I can import Shapefiles. My MapInfo files extensions are: .TAB, .DAT, .IND, .MAP, .ID
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to Overlay two Charts

    The user would like to has the ability to create a combination chart that has two areas, one for a scatter plot (or a trend chart) and one for a histogram. This is pretty useful, and almost all other statistical analysis systems have this option.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration
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