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    Reusable data limiting expressions (includes data limiting per page)

    I stumbled accross TS-I-5450 because I want to have data limiting per page. Thinking a bit more about this, I came up with the idea that it would be cool to have a list of expressions which could be used for data limiting. Basically, I am thinking...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Data Functions need to support native 'String List' type as inputs or outputs

    Spotfire's Data Funcitons are among the top differentiators from its competitor tools and I use them often to create very valuable and sophisticated user work-flows that takes a complex process and makes it seem trivial. In creating a specific wor...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Display value of column width / row height during resize operation

    When a column is resized in Spotfire Analyst, it would be great to have the value displayed, like in Microsoft Excel. The same applies to the row height. Eventually have the same features for the Web Player. Thank you for your consideration. Kind ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Sor values in a column by values in another column

    Say you have a month name or some period indicator like 'MAR-16' as a column. Then in the dataset there would be maybe another column with a time stamp. I would like to be able to sort the period indicator column by the values in the time stamp co...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    tooltips for error bars

    Add tooltips and similar functionality found in lines and curves for the error bars
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Planning to implement

    Sort within a hierarchy

    When a hierarchy is used in a bar chart category axis, and then the bars are sorted by value it sorts all the bars by absolute value, without any consideration for the hierarchy. This is not ideal as the reason for setting-up the hierarchy at time...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Bookmarks Manager and Highlight Current Bookmark.

    Customers would like to be able to have the option to custom arrange their bookmarks. Also, they would like the current bookmark that is being viewed to be highlighted in the Bookmarks Bar.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Bookmarks 0 Future Consideration

    Enable table reload with prompt from IronPython in Web player

    Table reload is available to be triggered as a script in the client, the same is not available on the web. This leads for inconsistent report design and the need to try and train users to access the menu for reload but can configure action buttons...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    Connectivity with Graph Databases

    Be able to connect to graph DBs like Ne04j without using data functions and to interactively query it to create network charts.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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