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    Allow Embedding Data Functions within Action Mods

    Enable support for embedding data functions directly within the Action Mod package, rather than requiring them to be stored and referenced separately in the Spotfire Library. Currently, Action Mods depend on externally managed data functions, whic...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Enable Data Connection Management from Action Mods

    Extend the Mod API to allow Action Mods to interact with Spotfire’s data layer, specifically to create, modify, or trigger data connections. Currently, Action Mods cannot: Create new data connections (e.g., databases, APIs, local files) Modify...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add Document Properties to a Text Area via an Action Mod

    Currently, it is not possible to create a Text Area and embed Document Properties or other objects directly through an Action Mod. While it is possible to: create and edit Text Areas, and create or modify Document Properties via the mod, the...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
    204 VOTE

    Enhanced Combination Chart

    Allow for more robust combination charts. Multiple bar series, line series, stacked lines / area, markers, or any combination. Full color properties for stacked bars, individual line colors or marker colors based on categories or values in columns.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 13 Future Consideration

    Set the default behavior so that 'Reverse Scale' is unchecked when converting to a horizontal bar chart.

    When converting a bar chart from vertical to horizontal, 'Reverse Scale' is automatically checked. Please add a feature that allows setting the default so this option remains unchecked.
    about 1 month ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    allow action mod to copy & paste via clipboard

    Please allow action mod to copy & paste via clipboard, so we can utilize mod to pass information between spotfire and external system. One use case is that we want to develop an action mod to copy columns information to clipboard, which was av...
    19 days ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Custom Title Bar Colors per Individual Visualization

    Description:Currently, title bar background colors are controlled globally through Canvas Themes and cannot be customized individually per visualization. Requested Feature:Add a property setting to customize the Title Bar background color for each...
    about 2 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    add API to get the maximum number of clusters in dendrogram in heat map

    Please expose API to get the maximum number of clusters in dendrogram in heat map. AKA, the maximum value that can be assigned to heatmap.RowDendrogram.PruningLevel. The use case is that we are trying to use a silder (placed in text area) to contr...
    20 days ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
    200 VOTE

    API for Text Area Action and Property Controls

    Developers would like to be able to create text areas, properties and input controls in the text area that manipulate those properties. One example would be to have a tool that would perform an S+ calculation. A user of Spotfire could launch a too...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 11 Future Consideration
    184 VOTE

    Table and column auto-width, min-width and in-column search

    Currently tables in Spotfire look very ugly, not user friendly, have static widths and always laden with scrollbars and no built-in search functionality. Our users didn't want to use them. If you look at jQuery dataTables as an example of what a m...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration
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