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    Allow Javascript API to reference specific visuals on a page

    I would like to request that the javascript api be allowed to reference specific visuals on a page and not just the whole page itself. This would allow greater reuse of existing DXPs as I could have a DXP used from within the normal Spotfire web p...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Tab Groups and improved page navigation

    When you have a very large notebook, accessing tabs or rearranging tabs is a huge pain. The idea here would be to add several functionalities that would help improve this process. Specifically: Allow tabs to be sorted along the bottom into groups ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    More detail in WebPlayer error messages

    As an administrator of Spotfire I would like to enable error messages for Web Player end-users to be more informative or descriptive. Example many times when the chain of permissions in library is not complete we get screenshots depicting an issue...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Expose Lists to the Spotfire API

    Currently, Spotfire lists (as seen in the Lists panel) are not accessible via the IronPython API. This limits our ability to automate workflows that rely on lists, such as creating lists from specific column values and using list comparison tools....
    11 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Improved Label Placement in Charts

    Currently there are situations where the auto-placement of the labels in a chart is not intuitive. If possible, a large improvement for this would be to compare the values and position the labels according to the values. For instance, if there are...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Export Visualization

    We have lot of text areas and multiple visuals on one page and if we use Active page option which is by default then texts areas, some legends are not being exported correctly and hence users are not happy with this export. As a workaround , I sug...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Export 1 Future Consideration

    The ability to lock column width on Cross Table Headers

    Currently, if the labels in a Cross Table change with the data then the header width isn't locked and as new data comes it looks terrible. There should be some sort of ability to lock the header width to a fixed size that doesn't change.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Force server reconnect

    It would be nice if there was a way to force the TS Client to do a server reconnect (when the TSS has been restarted) - today you have to wait until the client tries to connect as it does every X seconds. There is an Online/Offline indicator in th...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to hide empty levels in treemap hierarchies

    The new Treemap vis shows empty levels as "Level n", when in the hierarchy there is an entry on a level below.I would suggest, that the user can chose, whether to see these empty levels, or not.The Cross Table shows the same behaviour.I would like...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    To have an opportunity to control size of the DXP files which are stored into the Spotfire Libraries.

    Users are saving big files into the Spotfire Librsries which lead to the performance problems on Web Player. It would be great to have settings which allow to control size of files (DXP or SBDF) to store. It allows to reduce load on servers and da...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration
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