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    Spotfire Analyst - Add more options for opening Spotfire Analyst from protocol call

    Opening Spotfire from Spotfire.Dxp.exe or tibcospotfire:server:* does not provide the same functionalities. Referring to the following articles: https://community.tibco.com/wiki/tibco-spotfire-analyst-command-line-parameter-reference https://docs....
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Annotation : sizing, transparency and text functions

    Should be very useful to size width with the mouse (today I need to add a line with enter), get more text functions (bold, italic, ....), and mainly be able to define transparency. Annotation is the only "visual" that can overlay other visuals. If...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Restrict Data Export for Authors and Analysts on special Analysis files / Visualizations

    We have some confidential data which we'd like to protect and users not allow to export. This is possible for users with Consumer role. Here the admin easily de-flags "Allow table data export in Spotfire web clients" under Appearance before publis...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 2 Future Consideration

    Sort within a hierarchy

    When a hierarchy is used in a bar chart category axis, and then the bars are sorted by value it sorts all the bars by absolute value, without any consideration for the hierarchy. This is not ideal as the reason for setting-up the hierarchy at time...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Sort categorical legend groups (color, symbol, etc.) by any column statistic & add sparklines to legend for that statistic

    There are frequent requests to sort color-by legend groups by a statistic (often count, sum, avg) for some data column shown on that graph. I suggest to generalize this by making it possible to sort any categorical legend group (color, symbol) by ...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Put a display name or completely hide path when loading analysis in webplayer

    We are showing clients analyses. It looks very bad showing them internal file paths. I understand you recently added this, but you should have made it an option, not a requirement. This is bad for a 3rd party facing use case.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 1 Future Consideration

    Expand (show /hide) Visualization parts to save space on screen

    When creating "controlled" filters in a Text Area it sometimes takes a lot of my space on the page page. It will be benefitial to enable a show/hide options where you keep a small part of the object when minimized and the rest of the objects on th...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Webplayer does not have data relationship function

    In Spotfire client, if customer go to "Tools" he can find " Data Relationship" option. But, webplayer does not have data relationship function. We'd like to have the ability to do Data Relationship using webplayer. Also enable to edit data relatio...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Provide actionable and detailed descriptions of _Configuring Document_ background process

    Scenario Observing the log for certain processes, it seems that procedures labeled as Configuring document tend to create runtime bottlenecks. Example In Step #2 below, only 2 seconds elapsed between Executing function and Creating output data... ...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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