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    Be abel to remove borders around text areas

    On text areas, you can only remove the white border by changing the general background colour of all visualisations. You should be able to switch these off completely or change their colour without changing the colour of all visualisations
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to filter Vertical or Horizontal Lines from Data Table (in Lines & Curves)

    Currently there is an ability to add vertical or horizontal reference lines from a data table for a visualization (in the Lines & Curves tab of the visualization properties dialog). For instance, if I was plotting time based production data fo...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Provide ability to save serries settings for combination chart visualization in spotfire when you use document property in series

    It is very very useful because when you create an automated visualization in which the categorical axis is changed automatically, you don't want the line curves under the next categorical axis column change the visualization to all bars instead of...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Data source (including server.default) latency recording

    As part of the performance data, it would be very helpful to collect the network latency for open data sources. This should include the Spotfire database (server.default). This will help pinpoint why Spotfire is slow at times.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    provide ability to assign color to labels to match the curves they are referencing

    It is useful for clarity especially in combination curves where many curves can be displayed on a dashboard.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to call a Javascript function in TextArea2 from a javascript of TextArea1

    For reusable javascript code. Sometime data in TextArea1 would affect the appearance of TextArea2 , thus the need to access TextArea2 script Also sometime order of execution of the script is important. TextArea1 script should be executed before Te...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Lock Visualization area remain between pages

    When using the lock visualization option, the locking options disappear when I change pages. I want to be able to switch between multiple pages and ensure text areas are the same size between them. I have to keep going back to "Lock Visualization"...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to reference already created values that are defined in a custom expression

    Being able to reference already created values that are defined in a custom expression. For example you might use the below custom expression code. I will create an average voltage and standard deviation voltage variables for my typical process. I...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Allow OVER functions to access multiple aggregations and allow multiple OVERs per Custom Expression

    Currently the OVER function is, frankly pretty poorly implemented for anyone wanting to do data analysis that's not time series data. OVER functions should be able to access aggregations in parenthesis. For example, if I wanted to calculate the av...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Automation services sending email option different port Instead of default Port : 25

    When running Automation job services to execute an XML locally with Send Email by default it used Port 25. But from Individual PC this will not work as the Port 25 is blocked my Mccafe and By default the Spotfire is configured to use Port 25 for s...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Already exists
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