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    Default image or message on empty visualisation

    When a user interacts with an analysis - there is always a likelihood they will make selections that result in no data being returned. Currently - this makes map go all weird and tiny; charts show wierd vertical lines, etc. Could you provide an op...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    CLI or API to automate Update/Migrate Services & Update Node Managers

    We have pretty much automated all the steps to apply hotfixes to our Spotfire servers except automating updating node managers and update/migrate services. I have asked this question before when we were using Spotfire version 7.0.0 and the answer ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 4 Future Consideration

    Export Data Table from Visualization (Scatter Plot, Bar Chart, etc)

    Allow the user to export the "Data Table" that is built when generating the data for a spotfire visualization, "Color By" column, "Marker By" row indicator, X column, Y column, Label column. Basically export the data from the visualization with a ...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Export 2 Future Consideration

    Sorting column names in a List Box

    When creating a List Box we want to change the order of the column names in the List Box. When selecting "Set property value through: Column selection" the order of the names is set, and the order cannot be changed. We would like a Sorting ...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Allow Mod as a Map Chart Layer

    This would allow a Mod to render itself as a layer on a Map Chart visualization. The Mod would be aware of the current extents so as to be able to be stacked with existing layers. This is especially useful for integration with GPU databases that p...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Native SAML authentication support

    SAML is being more and more used. We currently implement external authentication with SAML by a third party tool that handles the SAML requests and responses.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 5 Future Consideration

    A way programmatically to migrate and change the types to solve the problem

    This is related to Support ticket 2559163. The exception is thrown before constructor deserialization, so the developer can't catch that exception. The fix is to throw the exception when deserializing the explicit immutable property.
    4 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 To be Reviewed

    improve button (action control) appearance

    One of our customers wants the button (action control, typically added in a text area) appearance to be improved. For this use case the button is associated to an IronPython script that could take a while to run. Regarding the behavior of the Acti...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Python Expression functions, similar to TERR expression functions

    Python has a great potential, which can be utilized in this way as well. There are many interesting use cases, which can leverage the potential of python at column level as well.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to collapse all data tables in the filter panel

    We often have files with many data tables. I would like to be able to right click at the top of the filter panel and collapse all data tables so I can then expand only the one I want to interact with.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 2 Future Consideration
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