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    Option for a banner across a page for page title

    For dashboards, it is a good practice to feature a prominent title across the top of the page (such as the example in attached file). This is done using a text area today. Text areas can be hard to style, it’s impossible to find out what backgroun...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    add search to insert filter in text area

    When I want to add a filter in text area I oftenly want to do a search because I may manipulate a lot of columns. But in this popup I did not find how to initiate a search. This search is available from data panels and filter panels
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 1 Future Consideration

    Option to turn off padding on Text Area

    This would allow creation of side bars and text area control areas with a different background color of other visualizations, and have it look nice. Currently it looks blocky
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    Slide show

    New feature which can put Spotfire report tabs as a auto slide show on button click. This will eliminate exporting report to Powerpoint to use in Demos or in meetings.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire 1 Future Consideration

    Improve JS Mashup API

    Cannot get a full data table; can't explicitly call IronPython script - only through workaround; cannot extract individual visualisations from a DXP
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    PDF Reporting Public API

    The new PDF output of visualizations could be very useful if it was accessible via a public API. One can create prepared reports but those are too defined for most self-service scenarios. It would be very useful if there was a public API for creat...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Sample and Preview Data

    Easily sample and preview data so initial analysis can be done on data before all data is loaded. Expedites analysis creation greatly
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Pluggable AI Recommendations

    Use-case specific recommendations would be possible if we open up recommendation framework to be pluggable, and outputs from recommender to be visible
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Planning to implement

    Flexibility in "Size by" and "Color by" scales

    Allow size by and color by to use log scales, segmented scales, intervals from another column. Allow rules in Size By (like Color By currently has).
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Color Groupings

    Group large numbers of categorical variables by color groupings (ie color by different column as hierarchy). Related: Color column by another column.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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