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    Multiple scales on the category axis in order to avoid redundant categorical axis elements

    Have an option to allow empty categories to be skipped in trellised barcharts like the one attached.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    One Spotfire "Cancel" function to stop long running tasks data retrieval, report generation..., etc.

    Hi Supporters, We need a general way to cancel/abort/stop/kill current “long” operation while it is running. This requirement is about how to terminate the long-running job rather than “cancel” button. (sometimes, cancel button is to disappear fu...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Stacked bars labels displayed, no matter the importance of the data value

    When I am using combination charts (x = time, y = count of validation), I use stacked bars to show for example the proportion of male and female who validated, per time period. When there is not so much validations compared to the other months (an...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Colour of line vary with value

    One of our users made the following suggestion: It would be fantastic to be able to colour lines based on value - i.e. the line actually changes colour as the y value varies, or colouring is more versatile on combination charts - for example sep...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    up/down key to change column in column selector PRIVATE

    It is possible to change column by pressing up/down key after activated column selector in spotfire 6.5, and lots of customers(Toshiba) got used to it and heavily relied on it. Unfortunately this behavior changed to opening column select window af...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow user to edit DataRelationShip table after insert a transformation

    Once I insert “Transformation” in the DataRelationShip table, the edit table icon will disappear, which mean the user can’t change the X/Y selection any more.We wants to keep the selection icon after insert a transformation for DataRelationShip ta...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    more flexibility to adjust visualizations size (width & height)

    Customer wants more flexibility to adjust visualizations size (width & height) (1) select 1 or multiple (not all) visualizations in a page and arrange them evenly/side by side/stack. (2) set width and height by value (in pixel or percentage) o...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Auto naming of Map Chart layers

    Currently when you add a new layer in a map chart it is named based on the data table name, so this means if you can easily get multiple layers with the same name. It would be great if when creating a new layer, Spotfire either used some form of a...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to Load Color Palette from Prior Spotfire Versions

    When we upgrade to Spotfire, we are often in the position of adding to existing dashboards that were created in prior versions with the newly released version. It's best to maintain color schemes between them, and it would be cool if we were able ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Already exists

    Fix % of total to 100% in waterfall when using the colour by option

    I was hoping to build a waterfall and then be able to show how each step was broken down by using the colour by category. However when using the y axis % of total option, if there are 3 categories, the total changes from 100% to 300% which makes t...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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