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    "Fred is red" for categorical values - color a category by attribute from a table

    Business users are one main focus group for Spotfire - they want to easily find their product, region, customer. machine or similar in a visualisation. From my experience, this is a commonly asked feature, but not many software products have such ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow for independent setting of map layer label zoom levels

    I would like the ability to set the zoom visibility distance of feature and marker layer labels separate from the layer itself. Currently, if I want to have my shapes or points show up when zoomed out but not the labels, and then the labels to sho...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Adding filtering message in source information table

    In Data table source information (Edit >> Data table Properties>> Source Information) Marking is offered But Filtering datais not, we need to add Filtering data (like Filtering scheme(Default)).
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Will not implement

    Add ability to specify column data types when importing programmatically from Excel.

    I am currently running a script which will replace data tables with excel sheets through a simple file explorer interface. However I am noticing that Spotfire is automatically guessing the data type of a column based on the first n rows of data im...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    ability to show/hide labels based on conditions

    Customer ias asking for the ability to show/hide labels based on conditions, e.g. hide the lower bound label "0".
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Change the Font size of Chart Axis

    Hello Team, We would like to get the option to change the Font size of the Chart X or Y Axis axis name (not the scale labels) in the Chart Properties or Tools>Option>Fonts pop-up window rather then changing from the Custom Themes settings wh...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Legend Marking for Segments

    Marking from the legend is not currently supported for color mode "Segments". This is not intuitive. It is confusing that sometimes users can mark a color from the color by legend, but not always. We'd like to be able to mark when using segments a...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Show/hide cross table columns

    Ability to Hide / Unhide the column that we not required. Like in Excel. This works also when I have multiple Horizontal Column in the Cross Table.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Allow Lines and Curves to use Column Matches

    See attached file. We have an ongoing issue where an (Empty) value in a Data Table Relation does not allow us to plot lines, while this exact same function works for custom expressions. The reason I got from support is basted below. This would be ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Disable toubletap to maximize Visualizations in Spotfire App

    We would like to disable the feature to double tap a visualization to maximize it on the screen that was introduced in 7.12. This happens quite frequently by accident It shows not only visualizations but also Test areas like the page header or but...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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