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    The ability to lock column width on Cross Table Headers

    Currently, if the labels in a Cross Table change with the data then the header width isn't locked and as new data comes it looks terrible. There should be some sort of ability to lock the header width to a fixed size that doesn't change.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Export Visualization

    We have lot of text areas and multiple visuals on one page and if we use Active page option which is by default then texts areas, some legends are not being exported correctly and hence users are not happy with this export. As a workaround , I sug...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Export 1 Future Consideration

    Force server reconnect

    It would be nice if there was a way to force the TS Client to do a server reconnect (when the TSS has been restarted) - today you have to wait until the client tries to connect as it does every X seconds. There is an Online/Offline indicator in th...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to hide empty levels in treemap hierarchies

    The new Treemap vis shows empty levels as "Level n", when in the hierarchy there is an entry on a level below.I would suggest, that the user can chose, whether to see these empty levels, or not.The Cross Table shows the same behaviour.I would like...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Expose Lists to the Spotfire API

    Currently, Spotfire lists (as seen in the Lists panel) are not accessible via the IronPython API. This limits our ability to automate workflows that rely on lists, such as creating lists from specific column values and using list comparison tools....
    11 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    To have an opportunity to control size of the DXP files which are stored into the Spotfire Libraries.

    Users are saving big files into the Spotfire Librsries which lead to the performance problems on Web Player. It would be great to have settings which allow to control size of files (DXP or SBDF) to store. It allows to reduce load on servers and da...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    DataFunction support for external data (in-db)

    The current DataFunction paradigm only allows for sending data from and to the Spotfire in-memory data engine. For a Spotfire user, a Spotfire data table is a Spotfire data table, whether it is external or not. For data science and analysis applic...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Add control switches for LDAP safe-synchronization behavior

    In some scenarios with temporal network connectivity issues, when using LDAP synchronization and safe-synchronization enabled, there are sync issues on WARN level, so the user sync continues and "succeeds" and, afterwards, so does the group sync. ...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Smarter algorithm to label x-Axis

    When we use auto-bin column with bar chart on x-Axis we get most of the labels are repeaters, however, the data itself has enough variety to be shown on the x-axis. If we go to Edit-> Column properties, we can change the format of the data itse...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 6 Future Consideration

    Match columns dialog: make it sorted / sortable

    Dear Supporters, please make the entries in the match columns dialog box sorted or at least sortable. Regards,
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 6 Future Consideration
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