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    add option(preference) to set the max string length of tootips

    Currently the max string length of tootips is set to 100, if string is longer that that then it will be truncated by the leading 100 characters and suffixed with "...". Customer would like to have an option(preference) to set the max string length...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Integrate Google Fonts

    Link to Google Fonts for font choices in canvas styling, in addition to local system fonts. This allows huge flexibility in font styling for dashboards. Submitted on behalf of Enertel
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Better Default Date Formats

    When Day/Month or Month/Year are used, it takes too much axis real estate. Should instead display like "22 Aug, 29 Aug, 5 Sep" for Day/Month and like "Jan 2022, Feb, Mar, ... Jan 2023, Feb" for Month/Year
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    hide some of the columns specified in an axis

    Hello, Customer is asking for a feature to hide some of the columns specified on an axis. E.g. 3 columns is specified on the Y axis of a line chart, the customer only wants to show one of them in the Y axis's selector. The other two can be found i...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add and adjust zoom slider to automatically show all category labels in bar charts

    When using bar chart with category axis it is typically important to be able to see the category labels to understand the visualization. But if you have lots of categories, labels are not shown because of missing space to render. Then you typicall...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Line chart label options to include automatic first, last, min, max points by line

    Add option to Properties > Labels menu as check boxes to automatically label the first, last, min, and max values by line color. This would eliminate the need to manually mark certain data points. The show all and max number of automatic labels...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Middle mouse button or similar for panning in scatter plot, line chart etc.

    It would be very useful after zooming into data in a scatter plot, line chart etc. if the data could be "dragged" (panned). A handy way would be to use the middle mouse button for this.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Multiple Data Types on Combo Chart Y Axis

    It would be nice to be able to have two different data types on a combo charts. For example volumes (integer) vs Turn around times (timespan). This can be done in excel and honestly, I'm not sure why it isn't already an option as most industries l...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    always show axis labels

    We understand that if the width of visualization area is too small then the lablels of X axis is not shown. This makes it difficult to understand the graph. Customer is asking for more flexible ways to make sure labels on axis is always shown as m...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Change order of colors accordingly when sorting Pies or Bars by size

    {noformat}1. Create a Pie or Bar chart, using the Color By property with some meaningful column (to see some colors)2. In Pie chart: choose 'Sort by Sector size' (for pies)3. In Bar chart: choose the 'Color By' col as the X-axis col, and then chos...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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