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    Auto-Sizing of Spotfire Canvas

    When designing dashboards on one size of screen, it's easy to make them aesthetically pleasing with the correct layout and appropriate font sizes. Text areas however do not shrink when the screen size changes, and whilst I do appreciate there is a...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Enable the handling of touch gestures on Windows devices that uses both touch and mouse

    Need the ability to handle touch gestures in Spotfire on window tablets, also in combination with using the mouse.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Mobile 4 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Help to identify fields/expression having issues

    This would help to identify faster fields that require attention. See attached screenshot for a proposition. In this case, the issue was an invalid column name in the 'Limit data using expression:" field, but it could also have been in other place...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Improve metadata loading performance in the Google BigQuery connector

    When a user has access to many projects with many tables in Google BigQuery it may take a long time to list all the tables when configuring a connection in Spotfire. This is somewhat mitigated by turning of the setting Connectors > Google BigQu...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    allow bigger value for line width in scatter plot for line connection

    One of our customers wants to use bigger value for line width in scatter plot for line connection, in order to create a more visually appealing scatterplot. Currently the maximum value for line width is 6.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Show straight line fit labels in the color of the related line (currently all black)

    If you add e.g. a straight line fit with one line per color to a scatter plot and want to display say the curve expression with values as a label this will be multiple labels, all in black, and it is hard to tell which label belongs to which line....
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    A testing framework for applications built on top of SpotFire

    Need a testing framework which is compatible with SpotFire to automate the UI regression testing of applications built on top of Spotfire. This should cover both the core spotfire and custom extensions. The Framework allows full control over the U...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to pass document properties to and from JavaScript Scripts

    I need a way to pass document properties to and from JavaScript scripts. My workaround at the moment is to pass properties into html tags and then pass that to JavaScript. This is important to me for 2 reasons: (1) As a dashboard author, I'm ass...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    ironpython api reference documentation in python

    The API documentation to understand parameters and methods are in C# and is not python friendly. Is it possible to have another comprehensive resource just like it but in python?
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    add evaluation step walk through for axes equations

    similar to how excel has the evaluate formula option, it would be great to have explorer have an walkthrough option that evaluates each section of the equation to see where errors generate or if the equation is pulling the right aggregate/values y...
    10 months ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration
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