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    The ability to lock column width on Cross Table Headers

    Currently, if the labels in a Cross Table change with the data then the header width isn't locked and as new data comes it looks terrible. There should be some sort of ability to lock the header width to a fixed size that doesn't change.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    To have an opportunity to control size of the DXP files which are stored into the Spotfire Libraries.

    Users are saving big files into the Spotfire Librsries which lead to the performance problems on Web Player. It would be great to have settings which allow to control size of files (DXP or SBDF) to store. It allows to reduce load on servers and da...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Add more automation actions - refresh schema

    Hello, Please add a task in automation services to refresh the schema for a file. Currently this is a manual process for each file so if there was a way to automate this behavior via AS at a certain cadence it would be extremely helpful.
    6 months ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Improved Label Placement in Charts

    Currently there are situations where the auto-placement of the labels in a chart is not intuitive. If possible, a large improvement for this would be to compare the values and position the labels according to the values. For instance, if there are...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    More detail in WebPlayer error messages

    As an administrator of Spotfire I would like to enable error messages for Web Player end-users to be more informative or descriptive. Example many times when the chain of permissions in library is not complete we get screenshots depicting an issue...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Tab Groups and improved page navigation

    When you have a very large notebook, accessing tabs or rearranging tabs is a huge pain. The idea here would be to add several functionalities that would help improve this process. Specifically: Allow tabs to be sorted along the bottom into groups ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Create Connection For SAP Datashpere

    SAP's datasphere is their future cloud platform for reporting and analytics. Having a HANA connection is great for on premise environments, but their future is cloud based and Spotfire does not currently have a connection that would allow reportin...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    "Refresh Schema" from Web Player

    Hello, Currently it is not possible to refresh the Schema for a data source using the web player. This would be beneficial to add as I have a lot of users who would only need the web player to view data, but the data source changes frequently so t...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Likely to implement

    Trailing Spaces in Group Name Creations

    Hello, When I Create a group name, there is no error message that stops me from creating a group if their is a leading or trailing space. When I create a user or name a dxp, this check is there so wanted to bring this up for future releases!
    6 months ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Match columns dialog: make it sorted / sortable

    Dear Supporters, please make the entries in the match columns dialog box sorted or at least sortable. Regards,
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 6 Future Consideration
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