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    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 1 Future Consideration

    Merge columns even if the data types are different.

    When merging columns (data joins), even if the column names are the same, they won't be automatically matched if the data types don't match. When there's a large amount of data, setting each column individually can be time-consuming, so we'd like ...
    12 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Enhancements to the "Place Visualization" feature

    I want to align visualizations evenly, and be able to freely set the number to display vertically and horizontally, like in a trellis panel. I want to be able to specify the number of visualizations that can be displayed vertically and horizontall...
    12 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 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 1 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 6 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 1 Likely to implement

    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 0 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 0 Future Consideration

    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 6 Future Consideration

    add option to display text right after the checkbox input parameter for action mod

    Please consider below two for checkbox ("type": "Boolean") input parameters. (1) add option to display text right after the checkbox (2) add option to disable the menu (for changing input type) shown after the checkbox
    6 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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