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    Better Treemap visualisation (label, shape)

    Would it be possible to improve the Treemap visualisation to avoid the unreadable text labels in this visualisation? It could also be possible to switch to other type of shapes (like circles or voronoïds) in this kind of visualistion. Great lookin...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Display value of column width / row height during resize operation

    When a column is resized in Spotfire Analyst, it would be great to have the value displayed, like in Microsoft Excel. The same applies to the row height. Eventually have the same features for the Web Player. Thank you for your consideration. Kind ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Mods vs Native Visuals

    After working extensively with Mods in production scenarios, one limitation keeps surfacing over and over: Mods operate on a materialized data view, while native visuals operate on top of Spotfire’s semantic layer. This difference might seem subtl...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / API 3 Needs Info

    Enable table reload with prompt from IronPython in Web player

    Table reload is available to be triggered as a script in the client, the same is not available on the web. This leads for inconsistent report design and the need to try and train users to access the menu for reload but can configure action buttons...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    API for changing custom query

    Please add API function that can be called by e.g. an IronPython script to custom query and reload again
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    expose compact hierarchy filter for TreeMap

    TreeMaps are important hierarchical visualizations and navigating the hierarchy is an important interaction for treemaps. I do this all the time. So do my friends. Users are tyoically not modifying any of the other settings, but they need to navig...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Local File Storage adapter cannot estimate date type

    I have tested the following 5 patterns, but none of them could generate a DATE type. 1. value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyy-MM-dd" → INTEGER 2. Value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyyMMMdd" → INTEGER 3. Value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyyMMMdd" → INTE...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Display a custom panel when no document is open

    Ability to have custom panels be accessible before any document is opened is needed to support scenarios where the panel has functionality that allows the user to open a document or creating a new document from data.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Change column selection an axis with arrow key

    In Spotfire 6.5 it was possible to quickly apply the columns in a data table to the axis of a chart by just using the key arrows on the keyboard. Now in 7.8 this nice feature is gone. Could it please be reintroduced?
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Infer data types by introspecting csv files

    The TDV standard File-Delimited adapter introspects all columns in the CSV file as VARCHAR type. It would save time if the data types were inferred by looking at the data in the CSV file.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 3 Already exists
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