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    Chart pop when clicking elements in other chart

    Feasibility of chart pop when a particular value is clicked or marked in a visualization. Sometimes users do not want to navigate to different pages to see the information, eg if i have a bar chart showing sales of different regions and when i cli...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    create document properties from custom expression editor

    A nice shortcut is to be able to create document properties when creating iron python script parameters. If the doc prop does not exist, you can create a new one directly from there without having to go to the menu. I would like to see a similar s...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    double click custom expression to edit

    instead of right click the custom expression and select edit custom expression
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Scatterplot should allow for using values from different tables than the one specified in "Data" (based on Manage Relations)

    This feature is included already in Graphical table (if there are relations between tables established). I thought it would be nice to have also in Scatterplot.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Already exists

    Import fixed width data tables into Spotfire

    Sometimes source data tables are in the format of fixed width, no delimiter being used. Below is an example. Each field has a fixed width of 3 characters, but no delimiter. a def gh abc def g ab de ghi Importing data like this into Spotfire, there...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Add Ruler tool to map chart

    Would like to be able to click on the tool and measure the distance between 2 points in the map chart. Most other spatial softwares have this tool and it would be greatly beneficial for many of our workflows.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    In text area have the option to limit filters by markings

    We work with large groups of data and it would be a nice feature if you could have the option to allow the limiting of filters based on markings made in visualizations. This would be helpful if you want the user to be able to have access for say a...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    Allow shared data tables across multiple analysis.

    Multiple analysis can be built by users that work with common data sets, or subsets of common data. This causes multiple extracts of similar data from same source. More BI tools are now leveraging in memory. This request is to enable a data set t...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Scatter plot marker size to vary for each column on Y-axis

    The marker size in scatter plot can be varied by values in a particular column currently. But, when we want to show a different size for each column on y-axis it is not possible. We could change the marker shape but not the size.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Data Type of Column that starts as Int but later contains strings doesn't read the strings

    Hi, In the situation where a column in an excel file contains strings and integers but starts with integers, the data type of the column read into Spotfire is integer. It can't be changed from within Spotfire to read string and read in the string ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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