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    Make Information Designer a non-modal form

    50 times a day, I open Information Designer, navigate a complex folder hierarchy, make my change and close the Designer. Why can’t I keep my Information Designer open all the time in the background and minimise it. Either that or make it a separat...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services / User Experience 1 Already exists

    Add a dict data type to StreamBase

    Currently StreamBase offers following primitive field types: bool blob int long double timestamp string The primitive types can be used in higher order structures: tuple list There are also 2 auxiliary structures: function capture group The ...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 Future Consideration

    Display total elapsed time in file open details dialog

    Snowball's chance in hell, but what the hell. The open from library dialog shows fine grained detail on elapsed times for the various load operation components, and it all looks very impressive, but it does not add up the total elapsed time for th...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Details on Demand Display

    It would be helpful if when opening details on demand on one tab, that it was an isolated command, rather than details on demand opening on every tab within the tool.
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Wrap text in visual titles

    Hi Team, It'd be nice to have the ability to wrap the text in visual titles. When there is a long title, it ends with 3 dots(...).
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire should allow in-place replacement of unavailable non-embedded data sources

    When a Spotfire report pulls in a data source in the data canvas that is not embedded and the source is no longer available, the user is unable to replace the data source in place without using the replace button at the top of the canvas, which re...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    lock aspect ratio (width vs height) of visualization area

    Customer want so have the ability to lock aspect ratio (width vs height) of visualization area (on visualization level or on page level). When doing ppt/pdf export from different devices, the aspect ratio differs due to screen resolution, so end u...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Allow batch inserts into a table in datastreams cache

    in most recent projects the adapter type has been kafka and the message contain an array of data points (e.g stock quotes, sensor values, data points). These noramly arrive as an array of data points. To add tehse to the data streams cacahe it is ...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 Needs Info

    Add option to remove/add shadow in PieCharts labels

    Add option to remove the default shadows on Pie charts and wherever it appears on other visuals would help a lot. Having them by default and without possibility to edit is making it hard to read and less professional.
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Inspect accessibility issues

    I need a way to identify accessibility issues within a dashboard with guidance on resolving the issues to enhance accessibility and ensure an inclusive user experience for all users.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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