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    Legend to work as sub-filter for specific visualization

    Hello, as visual aid, a click on specific legend item can work as filter in/filter out on the visualization. See attached screenshots.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Parallel fetch for statistics

    The server needs to parallelize the gathering of statistics so that it can handle larger volumes of data
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 Future Consideration

    Linked to Source option in Business Author version

    Hi, Currently, Business Author licence allows only to embed the data or Info link (if we need linked to source). We have purchased 15 BA licences and all the users would like to have this "Linked to source" option to read data from source for Busi...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Fast access to Color Tab of properties dialog in tables by right clicking (also applies to other tabs and visualizations)

    When right clicking -> Properties in e.g. a scatter plot on the color selector, you obtain the Properties dialog opened on the color tab which is very convenient. The same functionality should work when clicking on the Color entry in a (cross) ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add 3d pie chart options

    add in 3d pie charts
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Show Calculated Columns Precedents and Dependents

    When making several calculated columns that refer to other columns it would be useful to see a branch out of all the columns that go into a calculated column. Also, the ability to see the columns that are dependent on the calculated column would h...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Get Page /Tab level usage of spotfire report

    We have a spotfire report which contains 12-15 pages and we would like to track usability of different page in that analysis by users from log files. I know we had tab level monitoring available in spotfire version 5.5 but later version does not h...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Library 3 Future Consideration

    Hortonworks connector system trust store support

    It's a pain to distribute and maintain certificate (.pem) files on Windows clients for the ODBC driver for Hortonworks. The Spotfire connector for Hortonworks should have a checkbox that enables the system trust store instead of the driver's local...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Enable ability to add DB hints to information link without using freehand SQL

    Hints are sometimes useful to improve performance of an information link but can only be added as FREEHAND. Freehand then locks the SQL and changes to filter parameters aetc are not honored
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Keep old output columns when adding new output columns in data function

    Say we have a data function that has column A as output. When the script is altered and a new column B is added as output, then an additional column A is added along with the new column B. However, as calculated columns etc. might depend on the ol...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration
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