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    Y-axis equalization across two visuals in a single page

    Useful to compare two visuals driven from two different data-set having different scales in bar-chart / combo-chart y-axis. For e.g. Backlog in one visual versus Forecast in the other visual.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    show value of each cell as labels in heat map

    Customer would like to show value of each cell as labels in heat map, especially when number of cells is small.
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Graphical Table should not flicker on marking

    Whenever we are trying to use graphical table and mark any row(s) the entire visualization seem to reload that seems like a flicker. We raised a CASE ID: 02170139 to which TIBCO responded that it is a known issue and hence this idea.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow numbers in symbol sets for short number format

    I have no clue why this is not allowed: I'd like to use numbers in symbol sets. This would be nice e.g. for formatting numbers on log scales. You could define a symbol set *10^-3, *10^-2, *10^-1 etc. which cannot be achieved another way. But this ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Better text formatting and viewing options

    It would be useful to wrap text comments and not run off the screen in detail on demand, cross tables, and tables. Also, we had a case recently (2467075) where exporting from details on demand and copying and pasting to Excel was truncating the te...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Network Chart Mod: arrowheads and dendrograms

    In your next update, please allow for directional or bidirectional arrowheads to be included in network charts. This will up the ante in displaying directional graphs. Another useful feature would be to allow the display of networks into dendrogra...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add Size to Fit to Appearance menu

    For table visualizations, there is a left-click option (when clicking on a column header) to "Size to Fit", which resizes the column. This is good, but I have to resize every column, which is tedious and inefficient. I would much rather have an op...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Already exists

    Avoid duplicate labels after formatting numerical axes

    Reformatting a numeric axis by reducing the number of decimals can lead to duplicate (and incorrect) axis labels. Should we consider dropping the duplicate axis labels that are misleading? One could manually reduce the number of labels in the visu...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add marking display options

    It would be very useful to have the ability to change the size and/or shape of marked items (especially in scatter plots). Currently you can either choose to have the color of marked items be set by the selected marking's color or you can have the...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 10 Future Consideration

    Dock the Legend in WebPlayer

    In version 6.x, users can dock the Legend icon in the visualization tile bar and with 7.0, the option of auto-hide feature of legend doesn't let the users to dock it. They would need an option to choose between these two options.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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