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    Subtotal column for Rows in the cross table similar to subtotal for columns

    Customer would like to have "subtotal for rows" in cross tables.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow to change the name of a Document Property

    It is impossible to change the name of a Document Property, this should be possible to allow building dashboard with correct namings of properties (which can change during the course of a project, technical requirements, naming conventions, ...)
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Stop Analyst from stealing Windows' focus

    When opening Spotfire, or when executing something that has "progress", it steals the focus from WindowsOS multiple times. This is very disruptive for the user. While it loads I want to be able to surf the web, write e-mails or whatever my work de...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 2 Needs Info

    Hadoop partition keys as automatically created prompts

    I’m currently trying to improve access to our hadoop connections. Our impala table is partitioned, in product and month. So the idea is, if I know which product I’d like to investigate and maybe also the date it was processed, I could make a prese...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Remember coloring between visualizations

    Oftentimes you want the coloring of a particular column to be the same across all charts in the page. Today you have to set it manually to be the same. It would be better if Spotfire remembered the color settings used for a column and applied it w...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add the possibility to change the size of the font in tooltips.

    Idea: add the possibility to change the size of the font in tooltips. Currently it is impossible to change and the fonts can't be seen in presentations on a large screen.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Please add APis to retrieve metadata like connection string of data source and other information of data source

    CUrrently, we have usecase for data catalog to retrieve information of a dashboard like the data tables used, data sources relevant and the connect info. But we do not see the DXP having this info and there are no underlying APIs to extract such m...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Manual refresh to a scheduled report using Automation service job

    A scheduled dashboard starts refresh from 8:30 AM and refreshes every hour until 9:30 PM and we have a dependent data flow which should end at 8:20 AM daily but every Monday its delaying due to data volume and ends between 8:40 to 9:05 AM so I had...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    View Resource Usage per User

    Currently not available. Would allow to see which users are having issues, may be using the tool incorrectly, and need additional support.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    arrow keys to move between maximized visualisations

    Tibco Spotfire version 10.3. When the visualisation layout is maximized it would be nice to move beetwen visualisations by using arrow keys.
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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