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    Annotation : sizing, transparency and text functions

    Should be very useful to size width with the mouse (today I need to add a line with enter), get more text functions (bold, italic, ....), and mainly be able to define transparency. Annotation is the only "visual" that can overlay other visuals. If...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Gradient color would be good for bar chart

    Various color gradient, pallets or images if we can add into bars of bar chart
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Show File Size in Library

    It would be nice if you could easily see the file size of your dxp or sbdf files in the Spotfire Library. Given that in some cases there's a 2GB file size limit if your Spotfire database is on a SQL Server, knowing how close you are to that limit ...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration

    Export Conversations

    I'm designing a dashboard and the team using it will be making a lot of notes with the Conversation tool. The team hasn't asked for this yet, but it would be great if the conversations from dashboards could be exported into something along the lin...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Export 5 Future Consideration

    Load shapefiles from file geodatabase

    Currently we have to keep two copies of a "shapefile", one in a geodatabase for performant use in ArcGIS and a second as an extracted shapefile for use in Spotfire. I'd like Spotfire to be able to load shapefiles from a file geodatabase (not just ...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to get meta information from template/Analysis without the need to open it ...

    We need an API that takes as input a DXP file path and returns information about its meta structure (like, table names, filtering names, bookmark names ... ) without the need to fully open the template. We built a custom Job in Automation Services...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Library 4 Future Consideration

    Enable copy/paste of visual style settings

    A smaller version of idea TS-I-8589 Enable a context-menu option to copy (style related) settings and paste settings. For same visualisation type, all style-related settings (meaning except the data and axis settings maybe) are copied.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Officially (re) implement jQuery to be used in Text areas

    in 7.0 jQuery was unofficially supported and users found it very useful as a way to add change events and other cool functionality. In 7.5 and on, tibco officially does not allow jQuery change events and other features. Not supporting a major comp...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Allow viewing and un-hiding hidden columns in data table or remove ability to hide columns

    Spotfire allows a user to hide a column which is a precedent to a calculated column. But there is no way to unhide the column or see the columns that are hidden. Since the columns still exist, there should be a way to reverse the action of hidin...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Mouse Wheel Chart Zoom behavior change (X-axis and trellis panel view)

    When X and Y axis are enabled to show slider - please change mouse wheel behavior to ONLY allow zoom-in/out on X axis. Shift + Wheel will toggle zoom on Y axis.This will preserve behavior that is common practice across many other platforms. (Hones...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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