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    Annotation : sizing, transparency and text functions

    Should be very useful to size width with the mouse (today I need to add a line with enter), get more text functions (bold, italic, ....), and mainly be able to define transparency. Annotation is the only "visual" that can overlay other visuals. If...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Choose size of chemical structure rendered by Lead Discovery in tooltips using a numerical input field

    At the moment to change the size of a structure rendered by lead discovery in tooltips, there's a slider. However if you show multiple structures and want to have them the same size, you have to adjust multiple times which is annoying. Please impl...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Will not implement

    CROSS Table - border stile and rows

    change thickness of a CROSS table borders, I can see only a Show Border but no property to change it. Some IronPython can help? Put an alternate color for the rows in a CROSS TABLE
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Cognite Data Fusion connector

    Cognite Data Fusion is an increasingly popular data platform and we want a supported Spotfire CDF connector.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    add option to allow showing more than 100 results when searching the library

    Please add option to allow showing more than 100 results when searching the library using Tool -> Library administration dialog. Sometimes we need to search for many dxp files and the 100 limit is too small to show all the result.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Provide actionable and detailed descriptions of _Configuring Document_ background process

    Scenario Observing the log for certain processes, it seems that procedures labeled as Configuring document tend to create runtime bottlenecks. Example In Step #2 below, only 2 seconds elapsed between Executing function and Creating output data... ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    eliminate the difference in file paths between Web Player on Windows and Linux

    It turns out lots of our customer are using data linked from files located in shared folder in a file server. So this difference between Web Player on Windows and Linux is critical for them to migrate to Linux (in order to utilize docker & con...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Ability to have the disk cache used after a Web Player restart even if it is older than the last scheduled update (but within max age setting)

    Currently (in 7.8) when the Spotfire Nodemanager service is restarted, the web player will attempt to reload all scheduled updates that are written to disk cache. There is one exception, scheduled updates that were in progress during a reset will ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to sort bar chart based on a particular segment

    It would be great to be able to sort based on one segment of a bar for the full bar chart. For example, if I had a bar chart where each bar had segments "On schedule", "On hold", "Behind schedule". I'd like to sort by the "behind schedule" segment...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Default value for optional parameters in data functions

    When an optional parameter is used, I have to test in the data function whether the parameter is set using is.null() and assign it a default value. e.g. if(is.null(optPar)) {optPar = "something} because otherwise the code usually fails because you...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Scripting 0 Future Consideration
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