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    Better visualise KPIs with direction on map with line thickness

    Spotfire can show directions on a map: two points are connected with an arrow. Idea is to add to this the thickness of the line. Think of a Sankey diagram, but not on a circle, here it is shown on a map instead. This is ideal for showing movement ...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Set intersect point for x and y-axis in Line Chart.

    The first data point does not start at the y-axis but slightly to the right of it. I would like to have the option to set the first data point at the y and x-axis intersection.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Show/Hide Top N bars (not segments) on stacked bar chart

    If you create a Pareto chart with stacked bars, using the "Show top N" option (oddly) counts the number of bar color segments to display as opposed to complete bars. I realize it's possible to use some fancy rank functions and calculated columns t...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Capture the exception code from the database when encountering errors on TDV

    We hope that when frontend users execute API services released by TDV, in case of an error, the error message can include the error code provided by the data source. Then the front-end can collect error codes for futher analysis and application.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 4 To be Reviewed

    show horizontal bars on combination chart

    Customer wants to show horizontal bars on combination chart, with lines are drawn vertically.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add the ability to sort marked rows to the top of a table

    There are times when it would be useful to be able to add "marked rows" to the sort criteria for a table. This would bring marked rows to the top of a table instead of having to limit the data by marked rows. That hides all other rows, but a sort ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Support for Postgresql 11 as a data source, cache and data ship

    We would like Composite to provide Datasource adapters for Postgres version 10 and 11. Currently we are unable to upgrade to the latest version because of this limitation and use the latest features including usage of datatypes like JSON and JSONB .
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 4 Future Consideration

    Show or Hide column on data panel

    Data panel is good function. Many Analysts use Data panel. They use data panel like filter panel. filter panel can show or hide columns, but data panel cannot do.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Add option for turning off shortcuts for running tools

    While developing new tools for Spotfire, we encountered that when looking for those within the context menu, next to the title of our tools there is a letter between parenthesis, for example, My tool(B). This is something not that good when delive...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Save marker shape settings as a file

    Color settings for markers such as scatter plots can be saved as a file (ColorScheme.dxpcolor) and can be easily copied to other scatter plots. Similarly, it would be convenient if shape settings for markers could be saved as a file.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration
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