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    Ability to add breaks in axis

    In case of outliers or very large scale data, it could be nice to insert a (or multiple ?) break in axis to avoid crushing of visualisation.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Rendering Images in Cross Tables

    Currently, image rendering is possible in tool tips and in tables. In a cross table, because of required aggregation, images cannot be rendered. If an aggregation option such as 'First()' is used, there is no reason why the image cannot be rendere...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Put (Column Names) on Shape By axis to allow for multiple scales

    In scatter plots if you want to have multiple y scales (especially one to the left and one on the right), you need to color by (Column Name) or trellis by (Column Name). However, in scientific literature the normal way is to differentiate the left...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Share to Sharepoint

    As such there is no out of the box tool in Spotfire which supports sharing visualization(s) to SharePoint as it does for Tibbr It will be beneficial if we have a tool like that.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Map Background Images

    Allow setting the background image and coordinates from data i.e. a file location / URL in a column and use values for coordinates, rather than having to select a file, and hard code values.
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Multiple Interactive Layers

    Allow multiple interactive layers, or ability to click on point on the map and it to select all layers present at that point rather than just interactive layer.
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Possibility to create an hierarchy in markings

    Please add the functionality to create an hierarchy in markings. Example case I've three visualizations on a page which can be used to drill down: Visualisation A can be used to set Marking A and shows data for different continents. Visualisati...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Scatter Plot: Adding “multiple-scale” option on the X- axis.

    Right now the "multiple scale" option is allowed only on the y-axis, the option shall be available on the X-axis as well. Best, Yaqout.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Alternative visualization types with tabs

    Within a tab, one could have a tab group with a separate visualization under each tab. This would make it easier to show the same data with different visualization types. For example, one user might want to see the data as a heat map while another...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Keep settings when changing the visualisation type

    When changing the visualisation type from a line graph to a scatter plot or vice versa, it would be good to keep all settings which exist in both visualisation types (at least x, y and color axis settings)
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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