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    Add the ability to sort marked rows to the top of a table

    There are times when it would be useful to be able to add "marked rows" to the sort criteria for a table. This would bring marked rows to the top of a table instead of having to limit the data by marked rows. That hides all other rows, but a sort ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Allow custom orientation of hierarchical labels

    Allow the ability to customize orientation of different labels that are stacked on each other, so that you can adjust each one for visibility. Allow the option for both horizontal or vertical for each level of labelling, and allow an angle to be p...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Better visualise KPIs with direction on map with line thickness

    Spotfire can show directions on a map: two points are connected with an arrow. Idea is to add to this the thickness of the line. Think of a Sankey diagram, but not on a circle, here it is shown on a map instead. This is ideal for showing movement ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Be able to determine which markers overlap with which features between two layers of a map

    I often find shapefiles that I use as an overlay over markers plotted with lat/long from a different layer on a map. For instance, I might have complaints to the NYC 311 (with lat/long) service that I may want to overlay with police precincts (as ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Show or Hide column on data panel

    Data panel is good function. Many Analysts use Data panel. They use data panel like filter panel. filter panel can show or hide columns, but data panel cannot do.
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Annotations in Client and Web Player

    Currently When Annotations are added in the client in a specific position on a visualization , it appears scattered in web player and does not resize according to the monitor, on bigger monitors it appears way scattered.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Already exists

    Completely hide polygon border when thickness is set to zero

    Scenario Geometry (polygons) data plotted in Map Chart with polygon border weight set to zero. Expected: homogeneous display of polygon. Reality: discrete polygons still visible. Please refer to attached .png. Solution Per Tibco Support Case #0224...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add option for turning off shortcuts for running tools

    While developing new tools for Spotfire, we encountered that when looking for those within the context menu, next to the title of our tools there is a letter between parenthesis, for example, My tool(B). This is something not that good when delive...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Publish SDK as NuGet package

    Publish the SDK dlls as a NuGet package so that we can easily reference from solutions in a standard way. Would also be great to publish Visual Studio templates to create new extensions, with the template including Package Manager and a minimal S...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

    Error of renaming column -- The length of the property name must not exceed 1000 chars

    Hi Developers, We have a custom tool to rename columns which uses Spotfire function. There seems to be limitation on the column name where it must not exceed 1000 characters. How to reproduce: Insert calculated column Type an expression that excee...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration
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