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    Customize currency display format to allow a standard definition (always display by millions)

    We have a usage case where we want a graph to always have a standard display. A visualization contains graphs of both million and billions, but we want the text to only show billions (so something that is 5 million will show 0.005 billion)
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Bing maps

    Add support for bing maps in map charts
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Lightweight R console in Spotfire (Text Area)

    Why is it needed? - One of the bigger painpoints for spotfire when being compared to competitors (PowerBI etc) is not being able to execute code or query in a user friendly console window manner without the tedious Data Function hooks How should i...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Knit & Render Markdown in Text areas

    Why is it useful: - Markdowns represent reproducible research where a user has to document all the steps taken to reach that point in the analysis. It is widely used to replace "by hand" steps like downloading the data & transforming before ge...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    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
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