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    Variable Width on Bar Chart

    Would like to use the width of the bar in the Bar Chart plot to show the relative frequency or value range of the items in Category Axis. Or the sum of Sales as the height of the bar and the number of units sold as the width of the bar.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 8 Future Consideration

    Add possibility to disable/enable transformations in data canvas

    IN data canvas, you can see all the transformation steps on the data, you can edit and delete them. In many cases, when trying things out, during development and similar, you may want to temporarily disable the step(s) and enable these later again.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Need ability to retrieve the list of AD groups and spotfire groups a user belongs to in spotfire as a new column.

    This request is raised as an extension to the case id : 01598902. Although %Current_user% and %current_group% attributes are possible to be retrieved in the information link (personalized information link) in the where clause. Currently there is n...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Custom Expressions to be written using IronPython

    The current custom expression language is adequate for simple expressions, but having a full fledged python interpreter would greatly increase the readability and utility of these expressions/functions. Further, since the current custom expression...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

    Color Scheme doesn't retain custom colors

    It is nice to be able to create a color scheme with custom colors (using the colors coordianates). Now when you finish creating this color schema and want to reuse the color scheme you saved, all the colors you have created disapeare. It would be ...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Allow Javascript API to reference specific visuals on a page

    I would like to request that the javascript api be allowed to reference specific visuals on a page and not just the whole page itself. This would allow greater reuse of existing DXPs as I could have a DXP used from within the normal Spotfire web p...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Tab Groups and improved page navigation

    When you have a very large notebook, accessing tabs or rearranging tabs is a huge pain. The idea here would be to add several functionalities that would help improve this process. Specifically: Allow tabs to be sorted along the bottom into groups ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    More detail in WebPlayer error messages

    As an administrator of Spotfire I would like to enable error messages for Web Player end-users to be more informative or descriptive. Example many times when the chain of permissions in library is not complete we get screenshots depicting an issue...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    protect ironpython script with password

    Customer would like to protect ironpython script with password in order to prevent others from viewing the script content.
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Improved Label Placement in Charts

    Currently there are situations where the auto-placement of the labels in a chart is not intuitive. If possible, a large improvement for this would be to compare the values and position the labels according to the values. For instance, if there are...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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