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    Perceptually uniform color scales (Viridis, Magma, Plasma)

    Perceptually uniform color gradients are both more intuitive for human brains to connect gradients to a color, and are more compatible with various forms of color blindness than are most of the color scales in Spotfire. I'm tired of manually codin...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Restore the ability to jump to a file/ folder by typing the first letter(s) of it while browsing the library through the "Files and Data" menu

    With new UI in Spotfire 10, it is harder to navigate to files that are multiple folders deep in the library or in very long lists. In the "Library Administration" menu item, the library is presented similar to a Windows File Explorer window where ...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    Intellisense suggestions of categorical column values when using custom expression builder

    When creating a custom expression to limit/select data using a categorical value e.g. if([City] = 'London', 'True', 'False') This would help user experience and productivity / reduce human error.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Choose which Spotfire Instance has the lock on the list

    At the moment I think the first instance of spotfire which is opened will lock the list collection. It would be useful if a Spotfire instance can grab the lock, the lists would then be locked for the other instances.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Lists 0 Future Consideration

    Allow y-axis scale adjustment for 100% stacked bar charts

    Often in 100% stacked bar charts the lower 50 or more % are not of interest (e.g. you have typically an 80-90% yield and want to zoom into the yield detractor reasons in the top 10-20% of the bars). Unfortunately SPOTFIRE does not allow adjusting ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Already exists

    allow config.bat create-user command to take domain name as parameter

    We have a customer wants to integrate spotfire with Azure AD for authentication. The integration itself works fine, but the problem is, each Azure AD account must login once, in order to auto-create a spotfire account, so admin can grant license &...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    API/Event when Spotfire crashes ...

    Sometimes Spotfire crashes and we need to track these crashes ... today it seems there is no event fired when such crash happens. It would be very useful to have an event fired when UnhandledException is thrown (thus crashing Spotifre). We can reg...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 6 Future Consideration

    API to know when Spotfire is fully started

    We need an API/Event to fire when Spotfire is fully loaded/started and all modules and custom modules loaded in memory.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Column Annotations API

    The server needs an easy API to set and update column annotations on views.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 0 Future Consideration

    Support custom properties in the Business Directory at the column level

    Currently the Business Directory only supports custom metadata properties at the table level. This needs to be supported at the Column level so that data stewards can annotate individual columns with business metadata.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data catalog / metadata 0 Future Consideration
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