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    Improving navigation / 2 levels tabs management

    Sometimes, when you have an application (a DXP template) with many tabs (eg. 10+) It would be good to add more options for navigation. My idea would be to have 2 levels of tabs, that could appear like breadcrumbs. level1 tabs would represent the ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Handle situation caused by modern browsers not running scripts in hidden tabs

    Safari and Chrome (and presumably other browsers) won't execute JavaScript in tabs that aren't visible to the user. Spotfire relies on background JavaScript processing to send periodic requests to the server that tell the server to keep the analys...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Possibility to disable tooltip on KPI tiles

    Make it possible to disable the tooltip (which you can't configure anyways) on the KPI tiles, as they tend to persist if you use the KPI tiles on a tablet (and tap KPI tiles for action/drill down).
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Visualization within Text Area - Infographics

    Similar to inserting Filters - it should be possible to insert a visualization within a text area which could be an image of visualization and can directly point to actual visualization - instead of a link, it is an image which is used for navigat...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to calculate area for a shape

    Abiliy to draw shape (rectangle, aquare for example) and calculate its area (square meters) This will help analysis for a customer that need to analyze surface occupied by buildings, agricultural fields, square, etc.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Provide a callback in the Spotfire Javascript API to register Clicks on a template in a mashup

    We currently have an application that does a mashup with Web Player v7.0. We add a callback to the mashup HTML to register clicks on the template. This allows us to timeout a user to that has left the page open with no interaction. Moving the appl...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Will not implement

    Modify Save Menu in Business Author through the API

    We need to remove the Save option on the Save Menu in Business Author. We currently only allow Save As in our current Mashup that runs under Spotfire v7.0. We modify the HTML in the <div> section of the mashup.. We can no longer do it in v7....
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Provide an PDF renderer to display PDFs in data cells (like Image from URL)

    We would like to display instrument read-outs availabe as PDF (eg. chromatograms) to support data displayed in a data table.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Trellis Card Visualization: Add additional features in the Data section.

    Trellis Card Visualization. Add same features in the Data section that the rest of visualization types: Limit Data using expression, Limit Data using filters, Limit Data using Markings.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Already exists

    public API to create/utilize data source, data connection (using data adapter)

    It looks like data adapter related API is never publicly available since this functionality was added since spotfire version 5.5. more and more customer are using data adapter to connect to their data mart, a lot of custom development model would ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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