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    Initiate script (or action control click) through user-defined hotkey or keystroke

    I create and use dashboards with many action control buttons that trigger various scripts. The only way to use these dashboards involves a tremendous amount of mouse movement and clicking. It's slow, and frustrating, and strenuous on the index fin...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Visualize months with single letter code

    When visualizing trends using binned dates it would definitely help to have the possibility to visualize a single letter code for months instead of the three letter codes. When all months are displayed it could help in optimizing the visualization.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Enable drag/drop files into Spotfire Analyst using Windows Explorer when UNC path exceeds 260 characters

    Issue By default, Windows has a 260-character path length limit (MAX_PATH). UNC paths (like \\server\share\folder\...) count every character, so deep nested folders or long filenames push it over the limit. Explorer drag-and-drop to Spotfire...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Consumers to Use List Functionality

    Grant the List feature set to the consumer license to be able to export marked items from one spotfire project and use those same marked list in another active session in a different project.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Lists 0 Future Consideration

    show horizontal line for only one specific side of dual scale in combination chart

    Customer wants to add horizontal line to a combination chart with dual scale is on. So if he add a line with value of 6, then there will be 2 line drawn in the chart for each of the 2 scales most likely in different ranges, e.g. one with range of ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    See cache size

    When a report is cached via the scheduled update, it would be very helpful to see what size it is. This same information should also be written to the logs. This would help admins see how much each and even all scheduled update caches are taking o...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    ability to show/hide labels based on conditions

    Customer ias asking for the ability to show/hide labels based on conditions, e.g. hide the lower bound label "0".
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Another problem with data loading in 10.3 - defaults to add rows to table when tables are different!

    I load a table into 10.3 from xlsx file. I load the same table, again, but in the xlsx load dialog, I remove the final two columns from the load by unchecking their checkbox in the xlsx load dialog. Spotfire tries to add rows to the existing table...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Choose which lables are showed and calculation between then

    Sometimes you want to just see some specific lables (not all or nothing) and, in bar charts, see the difference between two specific lables (using arrows or circles).
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add 'sourceURL' to JavaScript scripts in text areas

    I regularly debug JavaScript that has been added to a text area. A useful tool is the ability to add '//# sourceURL=xxxxx' at the end of the script so that the browser debug tools can show the script in the sources tab. It would be great if Spotfi...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration
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