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    Customization of Labels and Zooming on Maps

    Map Labels - If the user wants to place labels above data points on a map, sometimes the locations Spotfire chooses end up covering other data points or making the map look too busy. It would be ideal to allow the user to click and drag on the lab...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Copy Text Area Visualizations

    Need to add the ability to right-click and "Copy Visualization" for Text Areas, just like you can for all other visualization types. Right now, if you'd like to re-use a text area (e.g. a custom filter section or title block), you have to right cl...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Support IronPython Script for Data Export to Excel in Spotfire Web Player

    Currently, IronPython scripts that export data to Excel work seamlessly in the Spotfire client version but do not function when used in the Web Player. This limitation poses a significant challenge for users who rely on automated data exports from...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Add "Column Property" to the menu when clicking on the column name

    This would avoid multiple clicks, and other keyboard inputs to reach the column properties dialog (located under the Data menu). This would be mainly for Table visualizations, but could also be beneficial in other visualizations. See screenshot fr...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Vertical lines with categorical x-axis

    I am creating financial charts, and would like to add vertical lines at certain dates. This is only available if the x-axis is set to 'Continuous', but my financial data does not contain data for weekends/holidays, and setting to 'Continuous' fill...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Please expand the GIS-related functionalities

    While Tableau supports Mapbox APIs, Spotfire lacks advanced features like map matching. I would like to see more comprehensive GIS capabilities integrated.
    5 months ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 1 Needs Info

    Spotfire Analyst - Extend the horizontal or vertical line when resizing visualizations

    In Spotfire Analyst 10.3, when changing the size of the visualization frame, the line displayed stops at the visualization borders. It would be great to extend it, so that it could be aligned with visualizations which are not right beside the visu...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Cross table improvements to draw vertical gridlines and horizontal gridlines with shading option for better readability

    It improves the readability a lot of our reports. We would like the option to enable vertical lines only on certain cells either the left one or right one or both. Horizontally, having the shade improves readability
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Public Web Service to check status Scheduled Updates (external updates)

    We make use of the public web service UpdateAnalysisService to trigger scheduled updates externally after a data refresh. Sometimes the scheduled updates fail. The only way to check this, is to manually log on at the Spotfire Server, go to the Sch...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 2 Future Consideration

    Ability to show and hide document pages via actions

    it would be really helpful if there were actions to show/hide the pages within an analysis document. This would be a bit like setting the visible property of a worksheet in Excel. This could be a dynamic action. This would enable a master page of ...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration
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