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Increase font size and line width using zoom

You need to increase font size when presenting results of an analysis to colleagues via screensharing or PowerPoint. Increased font size is needed, because people sit with some distance to the screen in meeting rooms and because of possible lower ...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Data Table Description

I need the ability to add a detailed description of a data table in the Spotfire client. When I have multiple data tables in a complex analysis, it is easy to lose track of what purpose each data table serves. I experimented with adding a new Data...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions Future Consideration

Node manager doesn't properly handle fail over for the scheduled updates and this needs to be updated

Currently, if the a scheduled update rules fails on a rule is will keep trying to use that node to re-run the rule regardless of the reason it fails. It should go to the next node in this scenario instead since the next node could be able to handl...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates Future Consideration

Manual setting of primary key column (Impala, DB2, etc)

When using external data, detail visualisations need a primary key in the datasource for markings to be applied. In case of views or custom queries, the resultset has no primary key defined on the database level. Would be great when we could selec...
over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Formating Options for Markers Fill and Outline (Colors, Transparency, Dash Type, Width)

Dear all, There are cases were we want to format the markers of a visualization by setting the fill color white and choosing a color only for the outline of the marker. Just like we do in PowerPoint, we might also want to set the transparency, d...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Collate pages of a Multipage PDF Report Export

When using the repeat over filtered values function in an the PDF exports for a multiple tab export the default export loops over the filter for page one and then repeats this process for page two and so on. It would be helpful if you could add th...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Export Already exists

API: Set starting folder for LibraryBrowserDialog

I've confirmed the following with the support team: There is currently no way to set the starting folder when opening the LibraryBrowserDialog via python. I can set the SelectedItem property, but if I set this to a folder in the library, that fold...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting Future Consideration

Coloring Class Apply() missing expected parameter

Scenario In. dxp, users may apply a colouring scheme of a visualization to another per this guide (https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire/6.5.0/doc/html/color/color_applying_a_color_scheme_to_another_visualization.htm). Doing so provides users an opt...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Be able to set default values for filters without coding

In many cases, I would like to set default filters, and there is no out of the box way to do it, it requires some code that my client (and I) want to avoid. for exemple, I need to show by default only the open tickets, but don't want to prevent en...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters Future Consideration

Terminating python script while it is running

There a lot of useful functions that are missing when working with python scripts. For example being able to terminate a python script while it is running. There are many ways of adding this into the script such as having the script open a new win...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting Future Consideration
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