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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

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.
6 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

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

Have the same drilldown options for fiscal years as for calendar years

It would be great to be able to use the same date drilldown options in fiscal years as we can for calendar years, i.e. Fiscal Year > Fiscal Quarter > Month > DayOfMonth, and Fiscal Year > Month > DayOfMonth, or DayOfWeek. My compa...
almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

Add an aggregation method to find the Nth most common value

MostCommon is a pretty useful aggregation method, for example when you have a large set of defective parts across different products and these are defective for different reasons and you want to see the most prominent error say per product. Very e...
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

Output Holt-Winters forecast as calculated column

Just discovered the Holt-Winters forecasting implemtation in charts and find it extremely useful. However, it seems as if it was not possible to also get the forecasted values as a calculated column. This would be required to e.g. do some error co...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration