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Introduce Styling Mods

Spotfire design can by quite nicely twisted with CSS stylesheets and similar approaches, but Spotfire 'themes' are a bit limited in variety. Also it does not fit into the community idea of Spotfire Mods. The idea is to have "styling Mods" - from a...
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Improved Label Placement in Charts

Currently there are situations where the auto-placement of the labels in a chart is not intuitive. If possible, a large improvement for this would be to compare the values and position the labels according to the values. For instance, if there are...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Line Charts - Break line if data point is missing

It would be useful to have an option to break the line on a line chart whenever the data point does not exist in the data. This is a different scenario compared to the already available behavior where there is a row in the data table just the valu...
12 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Calculated values or document properties in annotations

Annotations are nice way to overlay contents on top of visualizaitons. It can also be a great way to create infographics and easier to place labels on landing pages, dashboards or reports. Add calculated values or ${labels} on annotations. Here is...
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Match columns dialog: make it sorted / sortable

Dear Supporters, please make the entries in the match columns dialog box sorted or at least sortable. Regards,
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Copilot orchestrator

Currently, when users ask natural language questions in Spotfire Copilot 2.1 that trigger SQL query generation via the orchestrator, any syntactic or semantic error in the resulting SQL leads to a failed execution with no recovery path. The user i...
12 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience Future Consideration

More detail in WebPlayer error messages

As an administrator of Spotfire I would like to enable error messages for Web Player end-users to be more informative or descriptive. Example many times when the chain of permissions in library is not complete we get screenshots depicting an issue...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Spotfire Analyst - Allow to open files with "wrong" extention

While a "logfile.log" can be added as a Data Table, another log file called "logfile.log1" can not be added. Could Spotfire Analyst handle this and treat the *.log1 file as a "regular log file"? Allowing this could lead to avoid having to change s...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Streams Future Consideration

Set timezone for automation jobs in logs

When you look at the running and finished automation jobs the time they ran / are running is shown as UTC, if you hover over the number it shows the offset to your local time. There should be an option to enable a custom timezone or your local tim...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services Likely to implement

Smarter algorithm to label x-Axis

When we use auto-bin column with bar chart on x-Axis we get most of the labels are repeaters, however, the data itself has enough variety to be shown on the x-axis. If we go to Edit-> Column properties, we can change the format of the data itse...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration
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