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    Filters font and colors- not resizing height and width

    If a user is needed to use spotfire in a platform other desktop client, it would be a very useful feature for developers to make the font size and color changeable for filters on par with other resizable text area elements. It would be a massive i...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Shape axis in visualization mods

    Add the ability to define and use a shape axis in a visualization mod. The functionality should be similar as for the native Spotfire visualizations, e.g. the Scatter plot.
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add Trust option for custom queries for Spotfire Desktop.

    Th Custom Queries feature allows users to execute a database query when connecting to a database but before ingesting data into Spotfire, which works effectively to limit data processing times for a large data table. Custom queries must be execute...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Add a ranking list for mobile visualisations

    Create the capability to rank the visualisations for mobile solutions by adding a ranking number to the visualisations in a tab / report. Thus the mobile solution does not need to be built separately from the desktop version. The ranking becomes a...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to perform spatial joins in Spotfire Maps

    I would like the ability to be able to spatially relate tables within Spotfire. Currently, in order to achieve this functionality I either have to leverage spatial SQL on the backend or assign a geospatial key to my two different tables which allo...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    We would like a document summarizing the incompatibility.

    If a TDV version upgrade deprecates a feature, it will be noted in the documentation, but since there is no list of deprecated features, each feature must be checked individually. This is very inconvenient and we would like to have a document that...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add option to set HTML Sanitation on report/visualization level

    Currently, there is only the option to define the HTML Sanitation setting on user group level. It would be a great achievement to have the option to set this on report or even better on visualization level.
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Locking a Filtering Scheme

    Sometimes, I need "static" filters in visualisations. This can be done e.g. by using an expression to limit the data. However, to filter lots of different columns for a number of values, the expression becomes quite confusing (lots of and/ors with...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Dont erase error bars when adding axis titles

    When creating a scatter plot, if you create error bars but then change axis naming/titling, not the actual column being plotted just the alias name, the error bars disappear. This is very annoying. Can this not happen when titles are changed? Beyo...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to set isolation level of ODBC connections

    Currently you barely have any options when setting up an ODBC connection (In our case to DB2). We need the feature to be able to set the isolation level to uncommitted read to increase the database performance and to prevent lockings. The setting ...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 4 Future Consideration
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