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    Add an apply changes button to Custom Expression dialogue box

    I do a lot of cross tables and other visualizations with lots of 'Columns' that are custom expressions, and often I have to go through them and make changes to one or more than one of the expressions. It would be really helpful to have a button in...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / User Experience 1 Future Consideration

    adjust font settings of column selector per visualization or per column selector

    Please allow to adjust font settings of column selector per visualization, or per column selector if there are multiple column selectors in one visualization. Currently changing it from custom theme applies to all visualization in the whole dxp file.
    7 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Warning when closing tabs in Spotfire Desktop

    Our Spotfire Workbooks/Analyses can have a significant amount of tabs in them. When using the workbooks, it can occur that one 'misclicks' when selecting a tab. Instead of selecting a tab, accidently a tab is closed. For closure of tabs, currently...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 3 Future Consideration

    Improve save when node in in state Disposed

    I often see customers with errors when trying to save an analysis like:- Attempt to read from a node that is in state 'Disposed' There are various reasons for this but erroring and not allowing the user to save is not a good experience. Why not re...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Moveable Transformations in Data Canvas

    It would be more user friendly to be able to shift transformations up or down relatively without having to delete and recreate them.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Build a "Global Data Canvas" view to look at multiple tables, and their interactions, on the same screen

    Currently the data canvas shows any transformations, row/column additions, and data functions applied to a single, foundation, table. For complicated dashboards that require data flow over multiple tables (and between IronPython and TERR scripts) ...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Add Sorting to the Visualization Properties Panel

    I can now sort a table by more than 3 columns from the column header, but where can I see the sequence of the columns? The first "Sort by" is clear from the UI, and then all others are "Then by" with a small plus sign, but where is the sequence? T...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    release memory for Redo as soon as possible

    Customer has many end users (around 100) and all of them are connecting to a shared server(1.5TB memory available) via RDP and using Analyst to analyze huge amount of data (up to hundreds of GB). Sometimes memory usage of Analyst application is ve...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / User Experience 2 Future Consideration

    Can we hide the menu bar in web player?

    When a user opens a report, is it possible to hide the menu bar at the top of the screen? The user doesn't require it, it takes up screen real estate and often times users inquire about why various features have been enabled/disabled.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Data function management UI consistency

    Which UI to go to in order to do different things with data functions? Not clear/obvious currently. Many frustrations with these UI's. How is it clear that "Run" also registers? And then this isn't where I go afterwards to edit the data function
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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