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Allow a combination chart with bar and scatter (or allow linewidth=0) types. Make one y-axis log scale.

Trying to make a plot like the attached image with a bar chart, and corresponding a scatter plot overlaid in log scale.
about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Enable ability for an admin to "Act-As" or "Impersonate" a user for security testing

When testing and troubleshooting access and data security, it is often necessary to act as another user. It should be possible for an admin user to sign in but act as another user. A control could be in place for a user to be required to authori...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration Future Consideration

Order Map Layers from the Layers Panel on Visualization

It would be nice to be able to reorder layers for map visualizations directly from the visualization's layers panel. This prevents many clicks and improves usability, saving time.
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization Future Consideration

Missing data code may result in incorrect analysis

Statistica uses a potentially error prone approach for representing missing values. “-999999998” is the default missing value for doubles. If you enter that numeric value into a cell, it becomes a missing value and will not be analyzed correctly. ...
about 9 years ago in Spotfire Statistica Future Consideration

More options in concatenate function

It would be useful to have control over how concatenation separates values rather than always using commas
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Ability to set html attributes (width, height as percentages) for SpotfireControls (filters, actions and property controls) in text areas

I would love to be able to set width and height attributes for spotfire controls in order to have dynamic resizing for browsers instead of just showing scrollbars everywhere
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area Future Consideration

Add hyperlink labels to line charts

Currently, "Link" labels cannot be added to line charts even though they can be added to scatter charts. Can we add this functionality to improve the access to online content.
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Legend : If text to show is too long, beeing able to see it on multiple line

Sometime, text are so long , that we can' read the end. Could we have an option to said that "Jump down a line" is alloud, to fit in the page. With a scroll up / down, and why not a seach place, it would be perfect for users !!!!
about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

API to acces Custom Expression UI

We built many custom visualizations that requires users to input custom expressions ... we looked for an API to access Spotfire native Custom Expression Editor but we found that such API is missing! We need to be able to complement the custom visu...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Make it possible to tag users in a comment

Collaboration would be improved if it was possible to tag users in a comment and have them receive a notification via email and in their browser.
about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Collaboration Future Consideration
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