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    Enable Symbol Sets at the enterprise library level that can be shared or imported.

    When working with large, or very small numbers, there are generally short number formats that are used to make the unwieldy, manageable. Spotfire has a basic standard symbol set, for 10^3 (k) and 10^6 (M) but not larger or smaller than that, as ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Drill Through into detail in ERP Systems

    BI tools is often used for analysis of ERP data on aggregated level. Analysing e.g. production, sale or finance data, you might come to a point where not all details are available through the BI tool. For these cases, users would sometimes value a...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    add option in UI to change cross table default column width equal to using the API: CrossTablePlot.CellWidth.(reference)

    Customer wants to have an UI option to manually enter the value, due to dragging column header by pressing ctrl key can not adjust the width by pixel perfect, it's hard to set same value for two cross tables. API: CrossTablePlot.CellWidth.(reference)
    7 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Limiting data from secondary tables in visualisations, calculated values etc.

    When you combine multiple tables in visualisations, the only way to limit data from the secondary tables is to use filtering schemes. This makes it virtually impossible to create real "hard filters" when using multiple tables because users can alw...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Retrieve the Source information tab from Data table properties

    Hi team, It would be very useful to have the ability to retrieve all information found in the Source Information tab of the Data table properties.Currently, we can only retrieve parts of that information using the GenerateSourceView method from th...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / API / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Alternative to comparison circles algorithm in Box Plot

    The idea of the comparison circles (statistically compare data sets associated to individual boxes) is great but since it is limited to the average it kind of falls short in most scenarios. Comparing the underlying distribution is a more generic a...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Planning to implement

    Simplify the incremental caching option

    Now, the incremental caching option must be done with an external procedurewhere we need add the logic and the maintenance of the cache table (inser, update delete records). Then really the product doen't make anything itself. The idea is to simpl...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 0 To be Reviewed

    Pages by for cross and data tables

    Sometimes, having one separate table for each dimension of the data can be very useful. Having the option to display cross tables, but also data tables using the trellis option "pages by" could result in a very useful view on the data. Particularl...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst / Automation Services - No column name for Table / Cross table

    Using a case to exporting data from a visualization to a .txt (tab separated) for example, there is no possibility to export the data without displaying the column names. Some applications require input file without the column title row. The same ...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Expose Lists to the Spotfire API

    Currently, Spotfire lists (as seen in the Lists panel) are not accessible via the IronPython API. This limits our ability to automate workflows that rely on lists, such as creating lists from specific column values and using list comparison tools....
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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