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    Retrieve the Source information tab from Data table properties

    Hi team, It would be very useful to have the ability to retrieve all information found in the Source Information tab of the Data table properties.Currently, we can only retrieve parts of that information using the GenerateSourceView method from th...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / API / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Alternative to comparison circles algorithm in Box Plot

    The idea of the comparison circles (statistically compare data sets associated to individual boxes) is great but since it is limited to the average it kind of falls short in most scenarios. Comparing the underlying distribution is a more generic a...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Planning to implement

    Simplify the incremental caching option

    Now, the incremental caching option must be done with an external procedurewhere we need add the logic and the maintenance of the cache table (inser, update delete records). Then really the product doen't make anything itself. The idea is to simpl...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 0 To be Reviewed

    Pages by for cross and data tables

    Sometimes, having one separate table for each dimension of the data can be very useful. Having the option to display cross tables, but also data tables using the trellis option "pages by" could result in a very useful view on the data. Particularl...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst / Automation Services - No column name for Table / Cross table

    Using a case to exporting data from a visualization to a .txt (tab separated) for example, there is no possibility to export the data without displaying the column names. Some applications require input file without the column title row. The same ...
    about 6 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....
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Change (Empty) in axis values of cross table

    When a value for a column on the axis of a cross table is missing, "(Empty)" is displayed. This looks awful. It should be possible to display those entries as empty cells. It can be done by using something like sn([axis column], "") for strings or...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Column Sorting in Property Controls

    When creating property controls that use column selections the display order is no configurable. The columns are listed in the order they are added to the data table, not in the order they are selected and not even in alphabetical order. From a us...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Option to display guidelines that track horizontally and vertically across visualisation charts

    Could we have "on hover" guidelines that track a mouse movement over a chart and help the user to orientate his or herself against the X and Y axes' values? This is particularly for scatter charts. It would be great if we could also display the ex...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Hide markers on Scatter Chart

    Add the option to hide markers on scatter graph and only show the line connectors. Currently, markers can only be displayed in the background, made very small and have relatively innocuous shapes assigned to them but this creates an untidy appeara...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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