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    Polygon marking in maps and scatterplots

    Sometimes I like to mark data in a polygon shape. I use Spotfire's Lasso marking for this, which is nice, but in some cases it would have been easier to make exact markings using a polygon marking mode to exactly click on the points of the polygon.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Have a tool to relate versions between different stages

    In a multi stage (e.g. DEV, TEST, VAL. PROD)environment with SDMS in place. It would helpful to have a tool providing information about which version on one stage is related to a certain version on another stage. e.g workspace on val is version 1....
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 To be Reviewed

    Need ability to show or hide visualization based on button click (API Availability)

    The requirement is to show or hide visualizations (charts) in the spotfire report based on the button click. At present there is not APIs that we can leverage to achieve this functionality. Raising this idea to consider including this API for futu...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    Allow Schema name to be set in Write to Database Node

    With Oracle DB in particular, we are unable to use the Write To Database Node to create or update a table in another schema than the default one set by our connection string. The access to the alternate schema is granted from the database, but the...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 To be Reviewed

    Increase max number of charaters in Tooltip

    Sometimes there is a need for comments to show up but you do not want to add a column for it and would like users to see extra comments in the tooltip instead. Currently the sentences get cut off if it exceeds max # of characters defined by Spotfire
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    API to set the page scroll position

    For Spotfire pages that are taller or wider than the screen, I would like to be able to set the scroll position through the API. This could enable me to scroll a specific visualization into view.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Hide line type on legend for lines and curves

    Help to generate a cleaner look to the legend. I do not not want to see the line type for my lines and curves. My end users will not have any benefit from knowing that the 4 lines I am showing are created using "Line From Column Values". It only m...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Trellis Tables

    Is it possible to trellis Tables? I need to show the zscore for many tests that can be bucketed into several different categories. My thought is that this could be accomplished in a similar fashion to trellis for a scatter plot. Once separated by ...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Visual Mods - ability to set default aggregation of column to 'None'

    When selecting a column in a Visual Mod we need the ability to set the default aggregation method to 'None'. Would be great if this could be customized per Visual Mod or even per column.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Create maps from MapInfo files

    I have maps files built using MapInfo and I would like to import these maps in Spotfire in the same way I can import Shapefiles. My MapInfo files extensions are: .TAB, .DAT, .IND, .MAP, .ID
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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