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    Dont erase error bars when adding axis titles

    When creating a scatter plot, if you create error bars but then change axis naming/titling, not the actual column being plotted just the alias name, the error bars disappear. This is very annoying. Can this not happen when titles are changed? Beyo...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Make it easier to handle (similar) custom expressions in different visualisations

    Please make it is easier to change mutliple custom expressions and reuse custom expressions. Example 1: When I've three bar charts with different x-axis but with the same y-axis I want to change the custom expression at 1 place so that I'm sur...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Better Treemap visualisation (label, shape)

    Would it be possible to improve the Treemap visualisation to avoid the unreadable text labels in this visualisation? It could also be possible to switch to other type of shapes (like circles or voronoïds) in this kind of visualistion. Great lookin...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Display value of column width / row height during resize operation

    When a column is resized in Spotfire Analyst, it would be great to have the value displayed, like in Microsoft Excel. The same applies to the row height. Eventually have the same features for the Web Player. Thank you for your consideration. Kind ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Map Label Format

    Giving users to format further maps like in other visualization would allow more flexibility. If i would like to show % on a map, one needs to calculate a new column in order to duplicate the targeted column format it in %. This makes it quite hea...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    central alignment of KPI chart content

    I hope there is a function to customize the location of the contents of the KPI chart. It is now fixed to the left alignment. I would like to be able to align the center and the right.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Change column selection an axis with arrow key

    In Spotfire 6.5 it was possible to quickly apply the columns in a data table to the axis of a chart by just using the key arrows on the keyboard. Now in 7.8 this nice feature is gone. Could it please be reintroduced?
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Set the number of significant digits with having the label of the equation on a graph

    When I draw a regression line on a graph, I can have the label of the equation displayed, but I would like the decimal point displayed with the label to be variable. If the number of digits is too large, the graph is difficult to see, and we would...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    tooltips for error bars

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

    Allow Categorical expressions to reference columns in a secondary data table

    As an analyst I want to use categorical expressions based on a secondary data table in my visualization. Using a column from a secondary data table in the Line By or Color By axis when the x and y axis are based on the primary data table yields th...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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