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    Keep formatting in cross table when display name of column changes

    When the display name of a column (cell value) in a cross table changes, the formatting settings are reset. This is highly annoying, especially when column names include a document property which is changed by a user. After each change, the format...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Expressions - formula in-line context

    Add functionality like found in other coding languages (R, SQL, even Excel) which would show preview text when creating a new custom expression. For example: When you start typing... dateadd( you would see something like... dateadd( 'increment'...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Visualization Dash to group Details Visualization

    Idea behind this is to Display logically arranged Details Visualization. A drill-down or details visualization takes a lot of Space and often when we move from Summary to details, Summary used for selection initially and then ignored. Idea is to c...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Put a cumsum line in as a possible set line for bar graphs

    This is a very common line on a bar graph
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire 4 Already exists

    Add (line/bar chart) label option for Min/Max only ("Sparkline switch")

    When using line or bar charts, it would improve readability, if only the relevant data points are labeled, e.g. first, last, min, max points. This is often seen in Sparklines and the setting could be named like this in Settings-Labels
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Request Permission to a dashboard

    With folks not understanding the permission structure in my company while sending links via email, I often get request for access. As an administrator, I have to then send these requests to the dashboard owner for approval. It would be great th...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Apache Phoenix connector

    Spotfire should include a connector for Apache Phoenix
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Increase the limit for number of markings to be displayed from an In-db data source (Spotfire Cloud)

    To increase the limit for number of markings to be displayed from an In-db data source(for a table or details on demand) or to provide a feature for end user to control this limit in Spotfire Cloud
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Improve map chart marker layer performance

    very slow compared to scatter plot, even though same type of plot. Rendering must complete before user can move on to next action Possibly related to Idea on sampling/previewing data.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Output column mapping replace column

    Outputting a column from a data function that maps to data table should be able to replace an existing column
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration
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