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    Visualization Aliases: same viz in all pages, only one to be maintained

    In some cases, I need to duplicate a visualization in all pages, mainly a text area that is a menu / navigation bar / control panel. The problem is modifying those menu is a boring and error prone task. A solution could be to have "visualization...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Line Chart labelling improvement: line-by and color?

    The doc for line chart Labels states: Displays labels showing the categories used to create each line (by coloring or line by). But, if I have both line-by and coloring enabled, they are both included in the label, making them almost impossible to...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add `ReplaceDataFlow()` method for `DataTableDataSourceOperations` class

    In IronPython API, DataSourceOperations class has the ReplaceDataFlow() method which allows Data Table replacement without affecting downstream Data Transformation steps, similar to manually replacing in Data Canvas (i.e., click on table > Repl...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    Add the option to have Leader Lines in pie chart

    Sometimes in pie charts, if the number of labels is large, they tend to overlap each other even if my labels are outside the pie. Can we have an option to have Leader Lines in pie chart.
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add dynamic variables to the mods, like arrays

    I need to store variables that can grow in the mods, for custom properties that are stored as a dynamic array instead of only fixed sizes
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add default and quick short-cut to different config for the visualization.

    Users should be able to save/define default and short-cuts to different config for the visualization. So that after look into whatever content and made changes, the user should be able to click to reset EVERYTHING of the visualization to saved def...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Add zebra striping to a crosstable and graphical tables

    Add alternating row colors to Spotfire cross and graphical tables for consistency with regular tables Here is a workaround https://community.spotfire.com/articles/spotfire/javascript-row-styling-for-spotfire-tables-r3471/
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    expose API to configure preferences for groups

    We have some Spotfire Analyst custom modules that utilize preferences to store settings, and these settings are in json format so it's difficult to modify it using text editor so we provide a custom tool to do this. To apply these settings to pref...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Bar chart label position for each section

    Label position of bar chart's sections are aligned center, but would you add option of "align top / center / bottom" ? This option is useful when exporting visuals to PPT/PDF, that are zoomed with zoom-slider. Please refer to the attached ppt.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Needs API to undock Custom Panel

    Currently, there is no API available to achieve the popover(dock/undock) of custom panel. And have a custom Panel where the Pin icon that docks/undocks the panel is missing. So this request is to have the ability to add dock/undock icons to custom...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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