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    Sort columns in the Text Box Property controls

    I am looking for an ability to sort the columns within the Text area property controls(ex: List box).
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Reverse sort order for integer/real columns

    I can't believe I still can't reverse the sort order of an integer or real column in column properties. If I use an integer as a header in a cross table, I'm forced to use the default ascending sort order, there's no way to change that. My users f...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    Export Full Text Area to PDF

    Today, when attempting to export a text area, there is no way to ensure the full text is exported to PDF like there is for "Show Trellis Panels" or "Show Rows" not visible on screen for other visuals. This would be a handy enhancement to ensure th...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Gantt Chart Mod doesn't resize properly

    Currently the Gantt Chart Mod, has the following issues: Background is grey. No option to set the color. Even a default while background would have been fine with us Ability to set the fonts for the labels such as date, year and other attributes R...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Control the Map Ratio Settings with a doc properties or expression

    Allow the map ratio settings to be controlled by a document property or a expression. This would be very useful when using non-map based coordinates For example, gunbarrel diagrams in oil and gas. These are often shown with vertical exaggeration b...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Provide an option to setup a custom database for the default cache db

    The DV server currently uses an embedded PostgreSQL database as the default cache. This enhancement would allow the developer or admin the ability configure any supported cache data source as their "default" cache.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Future Consideration

    Official Support for CDH 6.x

    I think it's important to officially support one of the most important Hadoop distributions in its recent version. CDH 6 has been released more than 1 year ago, so it's time to provide official support for this data source.
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 To be Reviewed

    Easily switch between configured visualizations

    When building dashboards for our consumer users, for some visualizations, I would like to be able to provide one or more options that the user can easily choose between. As an example I may have a visualization that shows Class sales over time as ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Map projections

    Add/enable a Google Earth style 3D globe projection. This would solve many issues with World Mercator, lack of polar projections, visualization, etc.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    API to read multiple SBDF files consecutively and append them as a single data table

    I'm proposing an API to read multiple SBDF files consecutively and append them as a single data table. If CustomDataSource is fetching a large SBDF file from a file server (e.g. samba server), I think it would be faster to split it into several SB...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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