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    sort Y axis (numeric) descendantly on cross tab

    Customer wants to sort Y axis (numeric) descendantly on cross tab. Thanks.
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow grid lines in chart foreground

    See attached. With grid lines in background of this bar chart, it's not very visible or useful. Transparency helps, but still not ideal. Allowing grid lines to be in foreground would help. Also should allow changing color of grid lines so chart ...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add (Tools menu) Models to Recommendations Engine

    It would be valuable to have an option to initiate the Tools menu models (Data Relationships, Clustering, Regression, Classification) with the Recommendations engine. Data exploration can become tedious and haphazard when dealing with more than a ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom orientation of labels

    In the oil and gas space, horizontal wells are typically oriented north-south, lateral lengths are typically 2 miles long, and interwell spacing is typically 1/4 mile. Wells are mostly drilled from a common surface pad location (making placing lab...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Move Highlighted Line to Foreground in Scatter Plots

    In line plots, if a certain set of data points is highlighted by selecting, for example, the corresponding entry in the legend, the line is moved to the foreground such that it is not obstructed by other lines. In a scatter plot with line connecti...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Search: Add thesaurus for search engine

    Some similar terms should be indexed into the search engine. Even terms that are only similar in context. Does not need to be NLP-driven semantic mapping, just a simple rules-based thesaurus. For instance, in the attached example, I have wage da...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Casing clean-up recommendation

    Add a recommendation to the data panel to clean up casing differences in a column similar to the existing spaces clean up recommendation. Display the recommendation when a column contains values that differ only in casing. When selected, add a tra...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    global setting to configure Analyst temp location

    Customer is asking for a global setting to configure Analyst temp location. Many end users connect to shared server via RDP to utilize Spotfire but each user is limited to 10GB of personal folder. By default Spotfire temp files are saved to person...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Microsoft Project as a Data Source

    We have a usage case that would like to use Microsoft Project as a Data Source. Right now the only option maybe ODBC driver
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Need better color code on line chart

    Hi In some our the chart, the color by' color is too close, which is hard to distinguish them. It is good Tibco should improve the auto color assigning. If this were to be done manually, it is huge task. Regards
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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