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    Add marking display options

    It would be very useful to have the ability to change the size and/or shape of marked items (especially in scatter plots). Currently you can either choose to have the color of marked items be set by the selected marking's color or you can have the...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 10 Future Consideration

    Cross tables: Vertical Axis Column width should move with the column

    In a cross table: If you have vertical axis columns with different width and you change the column order, the width of the columns is not moved together with the columns. This means that the width is fixed to the position of the column, not to the...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    show value of each cell as labels in heat map

    Customer would like to show value of each cell as labels in heat map, especially when number of cells is small.
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Add option to prevent the user from openning multiple Analysis files?

    As a developer, I would like the option to force my users of having only 1 Analysis file opened at a time (not in a new Window or Tab) using the Web Player. For example, consider the following use case:The user switches to EDIT mode and then click...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Library 5 Future Consideration

    change font of each part of the visualization

    What we know is that font settings only in "Visualization -> Canvas Styling -> Edit custom theme" are applied to PDF/Powerpoint export. The Font tab in Visualization Properties are not applied when export. However the configurable items unde...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Remove dragging of folders in Information Designer

    Remove the ability to drag folders to move them in the Information Designer. The function is rarely used deliberately and it's too easy to accidentally move a folder and then struggle to find it again.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Bookmarks: Make Apply special -> Filter settings -> Set only adjusted filters etc. available in API

    In the GUI, it is possible for bookmarks with stored filter settings to "Set all Filters", "Set only adjusted Filters" or "Mark filtered rows" via the Apply Special option. According to support, this is not available through the API. It would be g...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    more robust behavior when changing data tables for a visualization

    I have two unpivoted tables with 3 columns each. Account Name, Date, Cost Service Name, Date, Cost I set up a stacked bar chart for Accounts, completely configure it. I then duplicate it and change the data table to Services. Spotfire gives m...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Reliable distro files naming convention

    We had invested a lot of effort into building automations that would allow upgrade Spotfire quickly. Every such upgrade process starts with new distro files as inputs. But for some reason, distro filename convention keeps changing and it breaks o...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Current User Login, Domain and Display Names available in expression

    This is useful in the following use cases: You use row-level security at data-source level. This is a top requirement from business in case of of internal reporting! You want to load personalized information (business units, managers and subordin...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration
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