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    Auto-scale labels by Bar width

    Axis and bar labels do not fit if they are too many bars, do not fit on the bars if label font is too big, and are tiny on the axis if there are only a few bars. It is quite tricky to find the optimal sizing between these constraints, for charts t...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Marking that splits/combines aggregated data

    Imagine you have several US States on a map showing sales over time. On separate line chart, you want to represent this, but it's 1) too cluttered if you include all 50 states, or 2) completely aggregated if you aggregate all 50 lines. It would be...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Switch visualization type

    If there are three visuals on a page we should have the ability to bring one visualization in from another page and then Switch between
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Cross table aggregations

    Version 7.11 has better aggregations but work still needed in this area - e.g. custom expressions for aggregation
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Add Run Button to GUI

    Add run script button to any GUI where appropriate. For instance, when I am writing IronPython I often just want to run the script with a new parameter setting to see if it works. At the moment I have to edit the script before I run it, so it woul...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Alternate between Scroll for large tabular visualisations and a "Paging" option

    At the moment, the only option we have for tabular visualisations is to scroll through them. It would be great if we could add an alternative UI for the tabular visualisations such as a "page" option (Previous, Next, page 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 etc.). User...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    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)....
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    Encrypt/Decrypt existing column in tibco DV

    We create a view from datasource and we want to encrypt existed column by AES/DES in the view. But the methods and function used are not recorded in official documents. After encrypting, we need to know how to decrypt the column for verify.
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 1 Will not implement

    Built in conversion for Date strings in serial format

    There doesn't seem to be any way for Spotfire to take a date string in serial format (41397) and convert it into a working date. I know when the data table is being uploaded, it can be registered as a date and will be converted. For the purpose of...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Give user information via doc props: Groups, IsMobile

    Please add some doc props that are present in all DXPs (like FiscalYearOffset) that will provide critical information. Two key ones are: IsMobile? True/False - are we on a mobile device Groups - what group(s) are the logged-in user in This would...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration
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