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    Labels outside the bars of a waterfall

    Currently the default Spotfire v7.6 waterfall visualization does not have the ability to place labels outside the bars. When there is a thin bar (as per the below visualization in the right side), labels are not displayed. The example on the left ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    select multiple pages and move

    Customer would like to have tha capability to select multiple pages(pressing shift key and click pages) and move them all together, similar to what one can do with excel sheets.
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Multiple color axes in visualization mods

    Add the ability to define additional color axes to be used with a visualization mod. This is very useful when you want to color more than one axis in a visualization. The additional color axes should have the same configuration options as the stan...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Automatic restart of instances

    Hello, From time to time, we have cases where instances of our services stop (there is a moment when they lose communication with a server which causes the shutdown). So if it is the instance of a webplayer all the update schedules that should hav...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Improve Select Column Dialog: Resizable Window and Horizontal Scrollbar Needed

    When using the Select Column dialog (Columns selection window) in Spotfire, there are several usability issues: The dialog window is not resizable, making it difficult to view long column names. The Available columns and Selected columns list ...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / Analytics 1 Needs Info

    give the infoLink builder in information designer the look and feel of the data canvas

    The infoLink builder interface is now highly technical in look and feel while there is a very nice interface with virtually the same functionality available in the data canvas. This would greatly help the self service use of the tooling. Please co...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 9 Future Consideration

    add API to get the data type of a document property in action mod

    We want to get the data type of a document property, e.g. for (const p of document.Properties) { // get the data type of p here } const p = document.Properties.Get("my-property-name"); // or get the data type of p here The name of the property is ...
    3 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Custom expression when performing unpivot/pivot data transformation

    It would be useful to have the possibility to use custom expressions in pivot transformations. This would allow users to already create tailormade columns during the transformation phase, rather than once the data is loaded completely.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Permissions for data connections similar as for information links

    With information links you can simply give Access permission to the users and the info link can be used in a dashboard, without letting users browse into the folder the info link and use it. With data connections this is not possible: you must gra...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Improvements to the ability to select columns within transformations

    I'd love to see the following features included in the interface for selecting columns within transformations. In the Exclude Transformation: 1) Identify the columns to not exclude (i.e include). If I have 100 columns, and 20 I want to include, it...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration
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