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    Information Links to TDV Virtual Views migration

    Various Spotfire customers rely on 1000's of Information Links. Since IL's can't keep data external current investments in new and fast In Memory DB's (like SAP HANA) can't be leveraged fully. Moving away from IL's is a tedious task when there are...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Add a new property, e.g. "ExpressionWithoutAlias" to solve the problem of adding x-axis display name by using a custom expression to scatter plot breaks y-axis expression

    Visualizations display nothing when renaming X-axis with custom expression in any visualization with the following custom expression on the Y-axis : "NormInv (1 - (Rank(${Axis.X.Expression},"asc","ties.method=first") / (Count(${Axis.X.Expression})...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    API to get display name of an axis expression

    By default, the display name of an axis expression has slightly different syntax than the expression itself, e.g. "Max([col1])" is displayed as "Max(col1)". The display name is needed for several use cases, e.g. as category key in a color scheme a...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add hatching option to color setting

    Please add a hatching option to the color settings. Hatching is another way to increase color variation.
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Show more than 250 colors in the legend

    Please increase the MaxValuesPerLegendItem from 250 to 1000 or more. In the manufacturing field, it is now common to apply 500 or more colors to each defect category and identify them with a legend.
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Missing API for Graphical Table.CreateLayout

    We found out that we have APIs to programmatically scroll table plots, summary table and cross tables using API var table = visual.As<SummaryTable>();layout = table.CreateLayout(); But we do not have such API for Graphical tables. This is a ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Need special API from TIBCO which enables us to apply hierarchy column to our custom visualizations (like Adv. boxPlot))

    Hi supporter, Pls, refer to the attached image. User made a hierarchy column, but it's not able to be applied to advanced boxplot(but fine to boxplot). Thanks!
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Improved/Intuitive Color Properties

    There is an issue with the color by: option within visualizations in Spotfire. Currently I have created a 10 step color scheme starting with Purple ending with Yellow (see: Color Scheme pic). When I establish this color scheme in Properties > C...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Already exists

    An idea to improve CustomVisualization loading performance

    So far, at least in WebPlayer, each time, when user switch back to our visualization from another page, all the HTTP content (js, css...) of the custom visual will be reloaded through GetResourceCore() API. The browser can't cache them as a normal...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Categoric custom color scheme import needs improvement - I need to choose the colors. And More.

    I have needed this feature for the last 10 years. When I import a set of colors that I have saved to library, there is no way to choose how the colors are mapped onto categoric values. Spotfire just takes them in order and it's always the same. Th...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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