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    Increase font size and line width using zoom

    You need to increase font size when presenting results of an analysis to colleagues via screensharing or PowerPoint. Increased font size is needed, because people sit with some distance to the screen in meeting rooms and because of possible lower ...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Categorical Axis: Custom expression to define min/max values for date axis

    Short summary: Unable to control the last period displayed on a time series bar chart if the final period has no data. For example, if the last period I want displayed in the bar chart is December but the YAxis Count() for December is zero, Novemb...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Set scale range to expression(aggregation)

    I thing it will be better to put aggregation / expression like avg instead of Value.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Spotfire .txt export carries BOM, need a txt or UTF-8 .txt option without BOM - byte-order mark

    I am using Spotfire to generate tabulated .txt files using export function / save as .txt and automation services -> save tab as txt to be imported into an application that receives tabulated external data in .txt format to be loaded. Spotfire ...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Natively recognize spatial geometry from Snowflake for Map Charts

    With the snowflake data connector, it would be nice if the Map Chat visualization would natively read and recognize the geometry stored in the spatial table. This would eliminate the need to create all the additional columns spotfire requires as w...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Visualization 0 Planning to implement

    Option for Responsive Textarea and Cross Table

    This feature will be useful because textarea will automatically adjust to fit to your screen. I think this feature will benefit the developers and end user. Especially organizations with different type of devices which will produce different scree...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Data Table Description

    I need the ability to add a detailed description of a data table in the Spotfire client. When I have multiple data tables in a complex analysis, it is easy to lose track of what purpose each data table serves. I experimented with adding a new Data...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    API: Set starting folder for LibraryBrowserDialog

    I've confirmed the following with the support team: There is currently no way to set the starting folder when opening the LibraryBrowserDialog via python. I can set the SelectedItem property, but if I set this to a folder in the library, that fold...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Keep f(x) flyout items up-to-date with library

    When a data function has been deleted from library, it does not always reflect in the flyout (possibly because a client reload is needed?). Data functions are also not updated with the latest version in the library, nor is existing version number ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Manual setting of primary key column (Impala, DB2, etc)

    When using external data, detail visualisations need a primary key in the datasource for markings to be applied. In case of views or custom queries, the resultset has no primary key defined on the database level. Would be great when we could selec...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration
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