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    Folder structure to organize different map layers

    It would be really helpful if there was a folder structure to organize different map layers for end-users to easily navigate between layers. For example, a user could organize State Roads, State Property, State Parks layers into a folder called 'S...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Community page to share Dashboard designs and Iron Python scripts like Tableau Public

    We need to have a webpage to share new dashboard design ideas just like tableau has for tableau public. Its high time for all the Spotfire community people to have a common page to share dashboard on a common platform and download by one click rat...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Treemap should allow Color by Categorial Values (without need for Aggregation method)

    Treemap is a very powerful visualisation for hierarchical data. I found it surprising, that for Color you always have to select an aggregation method. Color has to be a continuous value and cannot be a category. In other visulizations like bar cha...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    export visualization configuration to text file

    Customer want to have tha ablity to export all visualization configuration, e.g. data settings / axis settings / lines and curves etc, to text file, in order to describe it in design document, as well as compare two visualizations.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Visualize months with single letter code

    When visualizing trends using binned dates it would definitely help to have the possibility to visualize a single letter code for months instead of the three letter codes. When all months are displayed it could help in optimizing the visualization.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    seamlessly Zooming in/out of data - using 'layers' in general charts

    Take an easy example: you are displaying a Bubble chart that aggregates some data on some categories. 'Zooming in' (e.g. via mouse scrolling) would mean that going into detail for that category in focus would show all the data points behind that c...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Choose which lables are showed and calculation between then

    Sometimes you want to just see some specific lables (not all or nothing) and, in bar charts, see the difference between two specific lables (using arrows or circles).
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    show horizontal line for only one specific side of dual scale in combination chart

    Customer wants to add horizontal line to a combination chart with dual scale is on. So if he add a line with value of 6, then there will be 2 line drawn in the chart for each of the 2 scales most likely in different ranges, e.g. one with range of ...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Set default legend items

    Customer wants to be able to specify which legend values should be shown by default when creating a visualization. For example , they want Scatter plot to have "size by" and "color by", but all other legend options to be unchecked by default. Cust...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Drop empty bars

    Expected: In DecisionSite, there is a drop empty bar function. Similar function is needed in Spotfire client.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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