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Faster line chart rendering for millions of points

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about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Option to order trellised charts by a column value

I've produced scatter graphs that are trellised in a single column by country name. As things stand, the trellised panels are automatically sorted alphabetically by the country name and no change can be made to this order. I'd like to be able to s...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Add spatial heat map fit to map chart

Quoting from the exchange portal's spatial heat map data function: "Studying raw point data for patterns can be difficult owing to uneven spatial coverage, and random variability in the values." So the motivation is clear and the above data functi...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Maps Future Consideration

Log Grid Lines - minor grid lines and Log10 scale labels

We need more control over how grid lines displayed on graphs. For example, in EXCEL you have major and minor grid lines and complete control over how they display. I want to have a Log10 scale graph that shows the normal Log10 scale, but Spotfire ...
over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Planning to implement

manage text area with business author

Text area is very user friendly but business author do not have any access to this functionnality. Should be great for all business author to be abble to create and manage text areas.
over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area Future Consideration

Floating Legend

Hello, A floating legend would help preserve space on a dashboard and specific visualizations. The legend is often necessary, but takes up valuable space on the visualization when it could be included in the "whitespace" of a visualization or coul...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

New filter type - dropdown (combo)

Could we please get dropdown as an option for filter types? This would prevent us having to use trickery with dropdown lists bound to a doc prop. We use dropdowns on nearly every portal, because they use less screen estate. Could we also have th...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Add zoom gradations to zooming on map charts

When using a map chart I often run into the problem where one zoom level is too far out but the next closest is too far in and it quite a large jump from the previous zoom level. I would like the addition of more granular zoom levels. Potentially ...
over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Maps Future Consideration

Spotfire Analyst - Enable color schemes for Combination charts

Hello, In a Combination chart, it is not possible to use a saved color scheme (unlike other visualizations like the Bar chart for example). As per today in version 10.3, the colors have to be selected manually under "Series", which is not handy at...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Coloring rule in cross table based on underlying data table

Coloring rules are based on the rows in the cross table (and not on the rows in the underlying data table) - Grand total values in a cross tables are aggregated from the rows in the data tables. The user is unable to create a coloring rule based o...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration
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