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    error reporting

    If I get an error while using spotfire, do not know why. I would like to send the error occurrence history directly to the person in charge and get feedback on the cause. (like microsoft)
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    setting decimals of the back digit of E+ (scientific formatting)

    Sometimes the number occupies too much space compared to graph when setting 'scientific formatting'. For example, in '1E + 001', the back digits of E+ are all fixed to three digits. I want to set decimals of the back digit of E+.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    [APPLICATION PROFILER] Ability to modify column-level information output data

    It would be really useful to have the possibility to modify the *_DataColumn output from Application Profiler the same way as we can do with *_DataTable, *_Visualizations. A particular use case would be to add the 'Origin' property of a column fro...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Make Unique Values Color Mode for continuous axes available in line chart

    I find it strange that Unique Values Color Mode is available in Scatter Plots, Bar charts... But not in line charts. It would be hepful (and more consistent) to have this feature in the line chart also. Especially because when using multiple data ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    change font of each part of the visualization

    What we know is that font settings only in "Visualization -> Canvas Styling -> Edit custom theme" are applied to PDF/Powerpoint export. The Font tab in Visualization Properties are not applied when export. However the configurable items unde...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Option to set default for action control type in text area

    We mainly use links in text areas as action control. Every time an action control is inserted, we have to switch from button to link. It would be nice if there would be an option to set to control type to link as default. An alternative would be t...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Auto-hide Zoom Slider

    When using a zoom slider on a chart, it looks cluttered. Would be nice if this could be auto-hidden and only appear when my mouse hovered over the chart area.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Restrict Client Usage to certain folders/files, More Granular Licensing

    We have some visualizations that contain highly sensitive data. Today in our environment all users that are not developers are only allowed to use the web player option for viewing their visualizations and are not able to use the client. We need t...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    CLI set-preference command to set Custom Preference in Tibco Spotfire

    We are currently working on implementing Custom Preferences in Tibco Spotfire. There are application that would require preference value to be updated more frequently. It would be nice if there is an option to update the preference value through C...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Allow html on calculated values or document properties

    Just saying. It could be very powerful to allow users to render html on text areas through Calculated Values or Document Properties. Consider this custom expression: "<b>test</b>" This renders as <b>test</b>, but it would b...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration
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