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    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

    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 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

    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

    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...
    about 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
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