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    Diagonal Axis labels

    Axis labels can only be horizontal or vertical. One better way to manage long axis labels is to have them diagonal as this would be best utilization of space and is more readable. This is already available in many other softwares.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Mark all visible rows instead of all filtered rows

    Using Ctrl-A, you can mark all filtered rows in a visualization. However, when there’s additional Data Limiting, this marks more rows than what is actually visible which I find rather unintuitive. Of course you can use the mouse to drag a rectangl...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow export of shapefile (.shp) format of Spotfire-generated polygons

    Many of TIBCO's excellent geoanalytics functions result in the creation of polygons. Will TIBCO add functionality to Spofire that allows the export of these polygons as shapefiles so they can be universally used and mapped with standard GIS softwa...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Export 2 Future Consideration

    Provide tool to configure content security policy header aligned with the mashery product

    Tibco in their Mashery product offers a safer and better way to set the header, the idea is to make the same tool available for Spotfire. As demands from our Security department are growing to configure more settings, manually changing the configu...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    add text input to mod popout components

    Please add text input to mod popout components so we can specify any value with it.
    6 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Label Bar Chart by category Names

    Instead of just showing the value of the bar also be able to show the category name so you don't have to hover over the bar.
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Sorting for waterfall plot

    The new waterfall plot only allows a sorting within the categories of the Category Axis. However it is lacking a functionality to sort the values based on the Value Axis which actually would make it "waterfall"-like. Could this please be added? Ot...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 7 Future Consideration

    Add transformations to external data tables (and database pushback of these)

    Spotfire lacks one very important feature to make data preparation more useful: basic operations on external tables. Other tools offer this in terms of joins, filters for row and columns, simple calculations, aggregation and similar. All these ope...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    read the auto scale function through the API

    The ScaleAxisBase.Range currently returns a null value if auto scale is on. I would like to read the auto scale function so i can give multiple graphs the same scale. This especially handy for data where you can not up front deterimene the scale o...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Customize Data Connectors

    The ability to add JDBC connections exists but the DB DATA connectors is limited to a finite list. The need exists to be able to add additional data connectors to anything that you can configure and ODBC connection for. Adding data table does not ...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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