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Change behaviour of links to files in text areas

Summary: If you place a link to a file that is not accessible for the web player service in a text area, the whole text area can take very long to render. This should be changed so that the text area renders instantly (but the link does not work)....
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

Be abel to remove borders around text areas

On text areas, you can only remove the white border by changing the general background colour of all visualisations. You should be able to switch these off completely or change their colour without changing the colour of all visualisations
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

Make the process of replacing Spotfire Controls on Text Areas more obvious.

When adding new Spotfire Controls on Text Areas I have to be very careful not to loose my control. Even with years of experience using Spotfire, I have to make sure the element is not highlighted when adding new ones. To do so, I have to click out...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

Do not reformat html when switching from editing a text area and editing the html

The formatting goes away when writing nice indented html including comments and stuff and then you edit the text area with the WYSIWYG editor to copy Spotfire controls (which is tricky btw) and then you go back to the html to see it all "optimized...
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

Input field should also allow using data fetched from table(column)

Currently, input field only supports data entry by user. Input field should also allow using data fetched from table(column).so when the filter changes, the input field shd also chg
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

The flexibility to customise the Help menu items

I wish the Help menu component can be customised, i.e. the availability to add a new text menu item named "information" with embedded URL link so that users can access the customised information webpage other than tibco only.
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

UX: Enhance Text Box formatting for novice users

Novice users should not have to edit HTML to change line spacing in a text box (from <P></P> to <br>) or to align content inside a html table. These should be out-of-the box imo. Line break tags <br> should be used by defau...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

Make it possible to add the filter summary to a text area

The filter panel now has a nice filter summary that appears at the bottom of the filter panel. We should be able to drop that filter summary into the text area. That would help avoid confusion about what filters were applied on a page.
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

Disallow some users to edit the text area (they still be able to use it to perform tasks originally intended)

So some user won't be able to change the intended functionality of the text area and messed it up. Will create lots of call to supports.
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

Support "Name Field" to "ID Field" mapping in Property Controls when using "Unique Values in Column"

It is quite common to have to display a dropdown or multi-select listbox containing a choice of items by name, but when a user makes a selection, pass the actual IDs of the items for downstream processing, not their names. Item Name Item ID Boiler...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration