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    Visualization Aliases: same viz in all pages, only one to be maintained

    In some cases, I need to duplicate a visualization in all pages, mainly a text area that is a menu / navigation bar / control panel. The problem is modifying those menu is a boring and error prone task. A solution could be to have "visualization...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Enhancement Request - Officially Support use of IN Operator

    Request for Spotfire to "officially" support the use of the IN operator in the Spotfire Expression Language. For example:CASE WHEN COLOR IN ('RED', 'BLUE', 'GREEN') THEN TRUE ELSE FALSEEND I've written code that uses IN () and it *appears* to work...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Reduce clicks to manage Data connections- Add Favorites

    Accessing data conenctions from the menu is tedious and many clicks and there is no ability to set favorites or carry on from last accessed folder. EVERY SINGLE TIMEDATA>DATA CONNECTIONS>FOLDER>FOLDER>....>Select>EDIT(or Doublecl...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Line Chart labelling improvement: line-by and color?

    The doc for line chart Labels states: Displays labels showing the categories used to create each line (by coloring or line by). But, if I have both line-by and coloring enabled, they are both included in the label, making them almost impossible to...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow for dropdowns or fixed options in data function flyout

    When configuring or registering a data function, I'd like to be able to enforce fixed choices for those input parameters. When running the function in a dashboard with document properties you are able to set options, however when you are running f...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 1 Future Consideration

    please show all timestamp values in Information Services activity details as human readable format

    One can copy Information Services activity details from Monitoring&Diagnostics => Information Services page since v14.5. However, all timestamp values are shown as milliseconds since EPOCH. "executedOn": 1762156205028, "ended": 176215620514...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Add `ReplaceDataFlow()` method for `DataTableDataSourceOperations` class

    In IronPython API, DataSourceOperations class has the ReplaceDataFlow() method which allows Data Table replacement without affecting downstream Data Transformation steps, similar to manually replacing in Data Canvas (i.e., click on table > Repl...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    Add the option to have Leader Lines in pie chart

    Sometimes in pie charts, if the number of labels is large, they tend to overlap each other even if my labels are outside the pie. Can we have an option to have Leader Lines in pie chart.
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Export directly from Canvas

    Simple button to bring up export dialog; prevent multiple clicks for going to File > Export > Data as file > select from drop down. Particularly useful when there are many tables in an analysis and searching through the dropdown can be di...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Automate deployment of custom packages when updating Spotfire

    In our Spotfire environment we use some custom packages (cobranding and some others related to the download section) and every time we update our Spotfire environment we have to manually update those packages and manually apply refresh the nodes t...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 1 Future Consideration
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