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    Treemap should allow Color by Categorial Values (without need for Aggregation method)

    Treemap is a very powerful visualisation for hierarchical data. I found it surprising, that for Color you always have to select an aggregation method. Color has to be a continuous value and cannot be a category. In other visulizations like bar cha...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Set default legend items

    Customer wants to be able to specify which legend values should be shown by default when creating a visualization. For example , they want Scatter plot to have "size by" and "color by", but all other legend options to be unchecked by default. Cust...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Drop empty bars

    Expected: In DecisionSite, there is a drop empty bar function. Similar function is needed in Spotfire client.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    seamlessly Zooming in/out of data - using 'layers' in general charts

    Take an easy example: you are displaying a Bubble chart that aggregates some data on some categories. 'Zooming in' (e.g. via mouse scrolling) would mean that going into detail for that category in focus would show all the data points behind that c...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Choose which lables are showed and calculation between then

    Sometimes you want to just see some specific lables (not all or nothing) and, in bar charts, see the difference between two specific lables (using arrows or circles).
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    notify when mod is synchronized from library to dxp file

    Please notify when mod is synchronized from library to dxp file (which refers to a mod saved in library), when the mod in library is updated. Currently there is no notification when synchronization occurred, and dxp won't change to dirty state eit...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    show horizontal line for only one specific side of dual scale in combination chart

    Customer wants to add horizontal line to a combination chart with dual scale is on. So if he add a line with value of 6, then there will be 2 line drawn in the chart for each of the 2 scales most likely in different ranges, e.g. one with range of ...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom tool context menu item text based on marking

    GetMenuTextCore() does not have any option to get the CutomTool context. It would be great to have the option to show an item base on the current marking. Users want to see beter and more explicit descriptions in the context menu items : e.g. - w...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Add borders around each cell in a heat map

    I've made a heat map and can't figure out how to add a black or white border around each cell in the heat map. Thanks!
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Formatting of aggregated numbers on tooltips and labels on a map

    How can I format aggregated numbers on tooltips and labels on a map. Seems like this functionality is missing.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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