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    secure the options in the Spotfire URL

    In SPOTFIRE you can share links. For example the options in the URL can look like this: options=13-0,10-0,9-0,5-0,6-0,17-0,11-0,12-0,14-0,1-0,3-0,18-0,7-0,15-0,19-0,4-1,2-0 which someone can put in a file and modify to options=13-1,10-1,9-1,5-1,6-...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Actions 0 Future Consideration

    Do not reformat html when switching from editing a text area and editing the html

    The formatting goes away when writing nice indented html including comments and stuff and then you edit the text area with the WYSIWYG editor to copy Spotfire controls (which is tricky btw) and then you go back to the html to see it all "optimized...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    Change auto execute behavior from Edit parameters screen

    When you go to Edit -- Data Function Properties and open up the Edit Parameters dialog...if the data function is set to update automatically, even if you hit cancel, the data function runs. This behavior should be changed so that if the user hits ...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 2 Future Consideration

    create document properties from custom expression editor

    A nice shortcut is to be able to create document properties when creating iron python script parameters. If the doc prop does not exist, you can create a new one directly from there without having to go to the menu. I would like to see a similar s...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    double click custom expression to edit

    instead of right click the custom expression and select edit custom expression
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Import fixed width data tables into Spotfire

    Sometimes source data tables are in the format of fixed width, no delimiter being used. Below is an example. Each field has a fixed width of 3 characters, but no delimiter. a def gh abc def g ab de ghi Importing data like this into Spotfire, there...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Add Ruler tool to map chart

    Would like to be able to click on the tool and measure the distance between 2 points in the map chart. Most other spatial softwares have this tool and it would be greatly beneficial for many of our workflows.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Support Spotfire Analyst on Linux desktop

    Some of our advanced users are requesting support of Spotfire Analyst on Linux desktop environment.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Please revive ability to select bar chart categoric value from axis

    This worked in v6.5, but not in 7.11. We'd like to once again be able to select a categoric value displayed on the bar chart axis to highlight all rows for that value. Used to work in 6.5, but now a new popup dialog appears with global controls fo...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Adjust Height Of tables in Automation Services emails

    We have to identify the Height and width of all visualizations in Automation services for emails. The thing is, some days I might have 10 items in a table and other days I might have 30. This makes the emails very odd looking.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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