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    Improving themes

    One of the greatest things I like about Spotfire is how easily you can assign and use of colors, and export/import using a .dxpcolor file. On the themes side I find it could be improved You have an "import theme from file" but no "export to file...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    custom y-axis label when using multiple columns

    I want my y-axis to say what it represents, such as "Error %" instead of "(6 columns)". I can list the visible columns using the legend, so I don't really care how many columns are plotted on the y-axis.
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    measure how long it takes to render a visualization

    Customer want to have the capability to measure how long it takes to render a visualization, e.g. (1) OOTB (diagnostics information, etc) (2) from log file (3) using Spotfire API (from IronPython script or C# custom module)
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Line Chart labelling improvement: line-by and color?

    The doc for line chart Labels states: Displays labels showing the categories used to create each line (by coloring or line by). But, if I have both line-by and coloring enabled, they are both included in the label, making them almost impossible to...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    An idea to improve CustomVisualization loading performance

    So far, at least in WebPlayer, each time, when user switch back to our visualization from another page, all the HTTP content (js, css...) of the custom visual will be reloaded through GetResourceCore() API. The browser can't cache them as a normal...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Font size within Text areas does not adjust automatically based on varying screen size, resulting in unpleasant user experience

    I have a page which focuses on KPIs at Glance. The page comprises multiple text areas & Spotfire calculated values in it. Varying screen sizes of iPad, Desktop, Laptop result in unpleasant view of this page as font does not adjust automaticall...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Allow Side-By-Side Bars to Overlap

    Several users are disappointed that Spotfire doesn't have all the charting features available in Excel. One feature I'd like to see is the ability to overlap side-by-side bars. I know we can stack bars, but that is not what I'm talking about. The ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Document property: slider controls need formatting options

    While building an analysis tool for my company I came across the need to use a number of document properties as inputs. In an effort to put some bounds on what the users could enter I decided to make these document properties as sliders, so I coul...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 2 Future Consideration

    Improve categorical coloring rules based on counts

    I don't think that Spotfire does this, and it does not look like it from my eyeballing. When determining the color mapping for a categorical column, Spotfire should first perform a count of all column values, then apply its "best" categorical colo...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add dynamic variables to the mods, like arrays

    I need to store variables that can grow in the mods, for custom properties that are stored as a dynamic array instead of only fixed sizes
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Mods / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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