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Table relations and cycles

When you get to a certain level of complexity in your DXP file, you often hit problems with cyclic dependencies between data tables. It would be extremely helpful to be shown where the cycles exist when you are trying to add new relations. Further...
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Add method to the JavaScript mashup API to check if Spotfire is 'ready'

I'm working on a framework to automate Spotfire Web Player interaction through Selenium. Very often when writing Selenium based tests I need to interact with Spotfire in some way (e.g. change the active page) and then wait for Spotfire to be 'read...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Line Connection for 3D Scatter Plot data points

Please add functionality to add line connections between data points in the 3D scatter plot chart
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Font size within Text areas does not adjust automatically based on varying screen size, resulting in unpleasant user experience

I have a page which focuses on KPIs at Glance. The page comprises multiple text areas & Spotfire calculated values in it. Varying screen sizes of iPad, Desktop, Laptop result in unpleasant view of this page as font does not adjust automaticall...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Ability to format exported images of visualizations before sending email.

Right now, visualizations can be exported as images and sent in an email. It would be nice to have a way to format images to be side by side than the default option of having one below the other.
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services Future Consideration

Render HTML in all tables, titles, subtitles.

The customisations in Spotfire are very limited. There is no support for custom icons and the built in icons are very basic. We launched our more popular product to our customers (http://www.eroad.co.nz/au/landing/leaderboard/) which requires us t...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Output Holt-Winters forecast as calculated column

Just discovered the Holt-Winters forecasting implemtation in charts and find it extremely useful. However, it seems as if it was not possible to also get the forecasted values as a calculated column. This would be required to e.g. do some error co...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions Future Consideration

Increase or remove the limit for the number of x-axis values

Currently the Area Chart can show at maximum 10000 values on the x-axis. This is too few for some data sets.
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization Future Consideration

Have the same drilldown options for fiscal years as for calendar years

It would be great to be able to use the same date drilldown options in fiscal years as we can for calendar years, i.e. Fiscal Year > Fiscal Quarter > Month > DayOfMonth, and Fiscal Year > Month > DayOfMonth, or DayOfWeek. My compa...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions Future Consideration

Labels Anti-overlap and Movable for Graphs.

Labels should have an auto location with an anti-overlap function and can be adjusted by the users. More on the anti-overlap function, 1. It should detect other labels, lines, and elements from 'lines and curves'. 2. All labels should auto posit...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration
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