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Persistent ascending/descending sort order for column values

I want to change sort order for column values to ascending/descending. I also want new inserted rows to take account of the sort order set for the column values. Solution with todays design: Descending column values can be achieved by using "Edit ...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

Apply sort order (for corresponding - not the same - values) from other column

In short,I want to be able to sort a categorical column by the height of it's bars in a histogram. I don't just want to do it visually in the histogram, I want that sort order applied to the underlying column.
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

Create a 'List box' property control with expression within a text area using a table apart from the default table

While working in the Property control dialog, select the property and set 'Set property value through' to 'Expressions'. However, when you attempt to Edit the Expression, only the column names from the default table are visible but not other tables.
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

Allow axis in a visualization to be used as a part of an OVER expression regardless of axis type

Currently, an axis has to be of type Categorical for it to be available in an Custom Expression with OVER() - e.g., [Axis.X] - in a given visualization. However, to add Line and Curves in the same visualization, the axis has to be Continuous. Enab...
11 months ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

Sort within a hierarchy

When a hierarchy is used in a bar chart category axis, and then the bars are sorted by value it sorts all the bars by absolute value, without any consideration for the hierarchy. This is not ideal as the reason for setting-up the hierarchy at time...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

Create Calculated Column from other table

Currently I don't see an option in Create Calculated Columns dialog box to create calculation based on data from other tables. It would be a lot helpful to have this feature especially when you want to create calculations based on data from multip...
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

Sor values in a column by values in another column

Say you have a month name or some period indicator like 'MAR-16' as a column. Then in the dataset there would be maybe another column with a time stamp. I would like to be able to sort the period indicator column by the values in the time stamp co...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

Principle Component Analysis - bring it back to Spotfire

For big data exploration in healthcare, I am using spotfire now since 2001. One of my favorite pieces of software. After uprgrading from 7.11 to Spotfire Desktop 11, Principle Component Analysis (PCA) went missing. Its a key feature in summarizing...
almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Already exists

add function to update the value of document property

Please add function to update the value of document property from custome expression & calculated columns, it's very helpful in some use cases if we can assign value from data table to document property.
7 months ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

Import/Export calc columns in Spotfire

It would be great, If we have import/export option in Column properties. This option required only for calculated column. It should allow to export calc columns and expression from DXP. And also, able to import calculated column from another DXP. ...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Management 1 Future Consideration