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    Limiting data from secondary tables in visualisations, calculated values etc.

    When you combine multiple tables in visualisations, the only way to limit data from the secondary tables is to use filtering schemes. This makes it virtually impossible to create real "hard filters" when using multiple tables because users can alw...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst / Automation Services - No column name for Table / Cross table

    Using a case to exporting data from a visualization to a .txt (tab separated) for example, there is no possibility to export the data without displaying the column names. Some applications require input file without the column title row. The same ...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Enable Symbol Sets at the enterprise library level that can be shared or imported.

    When working with large, or very small numbers, there are generally short number formats that are used to make the unwieldy, manageable. Spotfire has a basic standard symbol set, for 10^3 (k) and 10^6 (M) but not larger or smaller than that, as ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Pages by for cross and data tables

    Sometimes, having one separate table for each dimension of the data can be very useful. Having the option to display cross tables, but also data tables using the trellis option "pages by" could result in a very useful view on the data. Particularl...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    tooltips for error bars

    Add tooltips and similar functionality found in lines and curves for the error bars
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Planning to implement

    Change (Empty) in axis values of cross table

    When a value for a column on the axis of a cross table is missing, "(Empty)" is displayed. This looks awful. It should be possible to display those entries as empty cells. It can be done by using something like sn([axis column], "") for strings or...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Option to display guidelines that track horizontally and vertically across visualisation charts

    Could we have "on hover" guidelines that track a mouse movement over a chart and help the user to orientate his or herself against the X and Y axes' values? This is particularly for scatter charts. It would be great if we could also display the ex...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Hide markers on Scatter Chart

    Add the option to hide markers on scatter graph and only show the line connectors. Currently, markers can only be displayed in the background, made very small and have relatively innocuous shapes assigned to them but this creates an untidy appeara...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow labelling by multiple columns

    At the moment a data point in a Spotfire visualisation can only be labelled by a single column, so when working with chemical data you are limited to either a Structure OR an Identifier. A tooltip allows multiple columns, so can hover over a point...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Spatial Data with ST_GEOMTERY data type

    It will allow to load the Spatial data from Oracle with ST_GEOMETRY data type top build Map chart with shapes.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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