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    Global Zoom Visibility Control for Map Layers

    Current behavior: Zoom visibility must be adjusted per layer. When multiple layers are present, changing the visibility range requires moving each slider individually. This is inefficient when applying the same zoom range across all layers (e.g., ...
    10 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Font Rendering in Spotfire: TIBCO, please expedite the fix for this known defect

    Spotfire is not rendering all fonts correctly, it is inconsistent between visualization types. In order to have Spotfire Analyst / Desktop / WebPlayer correctly render the fonts chosen in the Canvas Styling UI and HTML & CSS used in Text Areas...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    ability to set default text sorting as a preference

    The best sorting option for text columns is the natural sorting. However the standard one is the one set by default for all columns with text content. Ideally the "natural sorting" should be selected by default, and in case it makes sense that the...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Editable fields in table visualizations

    It is often useful to annotate a table visualization with notes at the row level.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    automatically show the pages as more as possible when open a dxp file

    The situation now is required to click the three point button to show as wide as possible. Some end user is asking whether they can look the page as wide as possible without even click the mouse.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Keep f(x) flyout items up-to-date with library

    When a data function has been deleted from library, it does not always reflect in the flyout (possibly because a client reload is needed?). Data functions are also not updated with the latest version in the library, nor is existing version number ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    enable copy on expression fields in data canvas

    I think you are able to do this in Analyst. I needed to copy the Expression text out of the Column Properties in the Web Player data canvas, since its the only way to get to them on the WP. They are pretty gnarly. Unfortunately this is not possibl...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 1 Needs Info

    Update the "Open from Library" dialog to aggregate open time and correct the problems with it.

    The file open dialog gives a readout of the steps taken with a running timer for each. Unfortunately, the data is useless. It does not aggregate the total time, and it drops values of the intermediate steps. I personally watched a file load in sev...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 3 Future Consideration

    A way to filter to empty values in a Range Filter

    The `RangeFilter` class has methods and properties to: - Set value range. - Include/exclude empty values. However, there is no way to filter to just the empty values.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    add tooltips to cross table, table, summary table, graphical table

    It would be nice to have control without using javascripts to have more control over table visualizations (xtable, summaryTable, etc) like for example, renaming the column headers or adding tooltips Here is an example: https://community.tibco.com/...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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