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    Enable Box Plot with In-Database Connections

    The box plot cannot be currently used for an in-database data connection. The reason as given on the Spotfire documentation is as follows: "The box plot requires both aggregated and non-aggregated data and has not yet been adjusted to handle in-db...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Fetch and render the Description field from the column items in the Spotfire Library

    The understanding of what is displayed in a column is very important. When columns from information links within the Spotfire Library have a description set, it is not possible as per Spotfire 10.3.3 to fetch this information and display it in ana...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Add ability to change label font color independently of other font colors

    I would like the ability to change the color of labels within a plot independently of the color of the other fonts. For example, have the axis labels be black but the label colors blue.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Support for timestamp with timezone data type

    Datasets from sources that use a timestamp with timezone field are read incorrectly in Spotfire. See: https://support.tibco.com/s/article/Values-in-a-column-of-type-Timestamp-with-timezone-are-different-from-original-values-when-imported-through-I...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    A way programmatically to migrate and change the types to solve the problem

    This is related to Support ticket 2559163. The exception is thrown before constructor deserialization, so the developer can't catch that exception. The fix is to throw the exception when deserializing the explicit immutable property.
    4 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 To be Reviewed

    improve button (action control) appearance

    One of our customers wants the button (action control, typically added in a text area) appearance to be improved. For this use case the button is associated to an IronPython script that could take a while to run. Regarding the behavior of the Acti...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Add options for Area Chart Mod

    Add x and y gridlines, column sort order, color sort order, sliders and other options similar to what is available in a Bar Chart to the Area Chart Mod
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Page Numbers on Powerpoint Exports

    Good Day, Numerous users require page numbers on the slides exported from Spotfire to Powerpoint. Currently, there is no option to have this added in. Please can you review and possibly add in this functionality.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Server Routing Rules for Spotfire Library Folders

    In addition to the ability to create Routing Rules at the File, User and Group Level as one can do now, customers would like the ability to create Routing Rules at the Folder level. This would allow admins to have a folder in which more general re...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 2 Future Consideration

    nested scrolling on visualizations

    Users find it frustrating when the entire webpage scrolls while they are trying to scroll through a visualization using the mouse wheel. To improve the user experience, the visualization should scroll exclusively when the mouse is over it. This de...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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