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    Make Information Designer a non-modal form

    50 times a day, I open Information Designer, navigate a complex folder hierarchy, make my change and close the Designer. Why can’t I keep my Information Designer open all the time in the background and minimise it. Either that or make it a separat...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services / User Experience 1 Already exists

    Please, Support WMTS's REST format with Spotfire's Map Chart function.

    Dear Sir/Madam Some of the latest map offering services need to support WTMS's REST format,In the latest map information provision service, WMS will be old specification in the future, WMTS will be newest and will be used mainstream.If you support...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    give text area an accordion effect

    rather than relying on jquery to implement an accordion effect, just add a minimize/maximize button to the text area viz so a user could stack text areas and expend or collapse them when needed
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    When exporting Groups Include license information

    When exporting groups is should include the license information. It is a massive problem when you have large numbers of groups to set up.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Set intersect point for x and y-axis in Line Chart.

    The first data point does not start at the y-axis but slightly to the right of it. I would like to have the option to set the first data point at the y and x-axis intersection.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Time zone conversion function

    Currently we have the timezone conversion set up on database side, but if the user wants to change the timezone, then this will restart the pain stacking data import. One can solve it robustly by adding timezone difference with the DateAdd functio...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    More default Action Controls

    The TIBCO Community IronPython scripting page is very extensive and helpful: https://community.tibco.com/wiki/ironpython-scripting-tibco-spotfire Could some these be added to the default Action Controls that ship with Spotfire?
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire 3 Future Consideration

    Filter data by expression prior to pivoting

    Currently, creating a pivot table requires the entire source table to be used for the pivot when I frequently would only like a specific subset of data to be pivoted. An option to use a custom expression to filter the data prior to pivoting would ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Completely hide polygon border when thickness is set to zero

    Scenario Geometry (polygons) data plotted in Map Chart with polygon border weight set to zero. Expected: homogeneous display of polygon. Reality: discrete polygons still visible. Please refer to attached .png. Solution Per Tibco Support Case #0224...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Show/Hide Top N bars (not segments) on stacked bar chart

    If you create a Pareto chart with stacked bars, using the "Show top N" option (oddly) counts the number of bar color segments to display as opposed to complete bars. I realize it's possible to use some fancy rank functions and calculated columns t...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration
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