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    The ability to make SpotfireControl objects in text areas common for any text area

    When you add a filter, drop down, etc. into a text area for a report it shows up as something like <SpotfireControl id="909008u8ssahhjhkjashj" />. For this to work you should be able to copy the above to another text area and have the same o...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    show/enable shortcut keys for menu items (Spotfire X)

    show/enable shortcut keys for menu items
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 4 Future Consideration

    Data Canvas: Export/Import of ”node configurations” (transformation collections) to be reused in other dxp files.

    It would be very productive if it was possible to export/import parts of the configurations (collections of actions) from the data canvas – to be (re)used in other dxp files. Despite that it is possible to exchange data sources in a dxp, which som...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    API to read multiple SBDF files consecutively and append them as a single data table

    I'm proposing an API to read multiple SBDF files consecutively and append them as a single data table. If CustomDataSource is fetching a large SBDF file from a file server (e.g. samba server), I think it would be faster to split it into several SB...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Reverse sort order for integer/real columns

    I can't believe I still can't reverse the sort order of an integer or real column in column properties. If I use an integer as a header in a cross table, I'm forced to use the default ascending sort order, there's no way to change that. My users f...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    Horizontal statistics table in box plot

    Following this idea which has been implemented: https://ideas.spotfire.com/ideas/ALP-I-25 I want to request having the statistics table being able to rotate horizontally as well. Similar to other lables in the box plot.
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Export Full Text Area to PDF

    Today, when attempting to export a text area, there is no way to ensure the full text is exported to PDF like there is for "Show Trellis Panels" or "Show Rows" not visible on screen for other visuals. This would be a handy enhancement to ensure th...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Google BigQuery API Timeout after 10 seconds

    We have run into an issue which will stop us to develop any valuable datasets in Spotfire. So the situation is the following: When I run a query based on a table definition Spotfire kicks out a bigquery#table job which runs fine with no issues Whe...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Open Information Designer to edit selected Information Link from Data canvas

    With a right-click on the icon for the Information Link within the Data canvas, and/or with a button (see attached modified screenshot), the Information Designer would open for editing the selected Information Link. This would improve a lot the wo...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Easily switch between configured visualizations

    When building dashboards for our consumer users, for some visualizations, I would like to be able to provide one or more options that the user can easily choose between. As an example I may have a visualization that shows Class sales over time as ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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