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    Display total elapsed time in file open details dialog

    Snowball's chance in hell, but what the hell. The open from library dialog shows fine grained detail on elapsed times for the various load operation components, and it all looks very impressive, but it does not add up the total elapsed time for th...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Save marker shape settings as a file

    Color settings for markers such as scatter plots can be saved as a file (ColorScheme.dxpcolor) and can be easily copied to other scatter plots. Similarly, it would be convenient if shape settings for markers could be saved as a file.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Table of Contents for Prepared Report

    In order to replace another tool we have been using for automating PDF reports to customers we need the option to add a Table of Contents page(s) to a prepared report. These are reports with quite a few pages and it makes the PDF much easier to na...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Audit changes to library permissions

    Track changes to folder permissions within the library, perhaps using entries in the Action log table. We occasionally have problems where someone has incorrectly modified folder permissions and it would be useful to (a) identify what happened a...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration

    Fuzzy matching of location names with map charts

    When users are importing data with locations as names (city, state/province, or country) and the names do not exactly match what in the supplied maps, the user most drill into a map with labels to find the correct name; or go outside of Spotfire t...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    (TER)R (Package) Synchronisation between Clients and TSSS

    Hi using SPK files to deploy the very same R packages to all users of the installed client who run their scripts locally is a nice feature. However, for people running their scipts on the TSSS (ideally the very same) packages can only be deployed ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    Create Hierarchies in connectors

    If hierarchies could be create in the connection, there would only be the need to model them once and use them whenever the connection is used. At the moment, hierarchies have to be created every time a new report is made. Using templates is a wor...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    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

    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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