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    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...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Addtl. algorithm for Data Relationship tool allowing to mix categorical and numerical variables

    The Data Relationship tool is quick and easy way to search for pairwise correlations. However, the implemented algorithms a) mostly make strong assumptions and b) only allow searching relations between specific combinations of data types such as e...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    Enable table reload with prompt from IronPython in Web player

    Table reload is available to be triggered as a script in the client, the same is not available on the web. This leads for inconsistent report design and the need to try and train users to access the menu for reload but can configure action buttons...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 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...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Possibility to re-order prompt sequence

    To be able to support multiple use-cases with the same template and ultimately same info links it would be required to enable the end user to dynamically re-arrange the prompting sequence. Say the default sequence is prompting for a time range fir...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    central alignment of KPI chart content

    I hope there is a function to customize the location of the contents of the KPI chart. It is now fixed to the left alignment. I would like to be able to align the center and the right.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    API for changing custom query

    Please add API function that can be called by e.g. an IronPython script to custom query and reload again
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Support set the rendertype for customrendertype in ironpython

    I'd like to use IronPython to change the axis render types such as ChemDraw and BIOVIADraw maybe seem as the script as below: vc.XAxis.ScaleLabels.SetLevelSettings(renderColumn, ValueRendererTypeIdentifiers.ChemDrawRenderer)
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Alias Columns in Information Designer Using Custom SQL

    I've noticed that on occasions where I'm required to use custom SQL in my information links that I'm unable to alias the column names. I'm all for renaming columns within a DXP, but several of my users share information links. This can become cumb...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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