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    Treemap should allow Color by Categorial Values (without need for Aggregation method)

    Treemap is a very powerful visualisation for hierarchical data. I found it surprising, that for Color you always have to select an aggregation method. Color has to be a continuous value and cannot be a category. In other visulizations like bar cha...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Community page to share Dashboard designs and Iron Python scripts like Tableau Public

    We need to have a webpage to share new dashboard design ideas just like tableau has for tableau public. Its high time for all the Spotfire community people to have a common page to share dashboard on a common platform and download by one click rat...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Option to show custom application and document tools in any standard Spotfire menu

    As a developer or an administrator I want to show my custom tools in any native Spotfire menu, like File, Data or Help, or in a custom sub-menu below. This would give the flexibility to show custom functionality in more logical places when using ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Visualize months with single letter code

    When visualizing trends using binned dates it would definitely help to have the possibility to visualize a single letter code for months instead of the three letter codes. When all months are displayed it could help in optimizing the visualization.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    seamlessly Zooming in/out of data - using 'layers' in general charts

    Take an easy example: you are displaying a Bubble chart that aggregates some data on some categories. 'Zooming in' (e.g. via mouse scrolling) would mean that going into detail for that category in focus would show all the data points behind that c...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    show horizontal line for only one specific side of dual scale in combination chart

    Customer wants to add horizontal line to a combination chart with dual scale is on. So if he add a line with value of 6, then there will be 2 line drawn in the chart for each of the 2 scales most likely in different ranges, e.g. one with range of ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Choose which lables are showed and calculation between then

    Sometimes you want to just see some specific lables (not all or nothing) and, in bar charts, see the difference between two specific lables (using arrows or circles).
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    make script.WithParameters(params) work on WP@Linux

    Below IronPython script doesn't work on WP@Linux, res, script= Document.ScriptManager.TryGetScript('myScript') newScript = script.WithParameters(params) It fails with error "Operation is not supported on this platform." We use above API to enable ...
    about 1 year 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

    Set default legend items

    Customer wants to be able to specify which legend values should be shown by default when creating a visualization. For example , they want Scatter plot to have "size by" and "color by", but all other legend options to be unchecked by default. Cust...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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