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    Custom tool context menu item text based on marking

    GetMenuTextCore() does not have any option to get the CutomTool context. It would be great to have the option to show an item base on the current marking. Users want to see beter and more explicit descriptions in the context menu items : e.g. - w...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    add the ability to color code cross tables with nested headers

    I have a cross table with 3 layers of headers and need to color row values per column. First Header Level: in the example below if all 1a's were merged together that would be Customer if all the 2a's were merged that would be Network Second Heade...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom size in Export to PDF

    Currently in Spotfire PDF it has default Paper Sizes like A4, A3 , Letter etc. But I need some custom size of 11* 17, is there a workaround or can you implement custom sizes in PDF.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Export 1 Future Consideration

    "Fred is red" for categorical values - color a category by attribute from a table

    Business users are one main focus group for Spotfire - they want to easily find their product, region, customer. machine or similar in a visualisation. From my experience, this is a commonly asked feature, but not many software products have such ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Adding filtering message in source information table

    In Data table source information (Edit >> Data table Properties>> Source Information) Marking is offered But Filtering datais not, we need to add Filtering data (like Filtering scheme(Default)).
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Will not implement

    Support re-use of Property control definitions in text areas

    I frequently need to re-use the definition of the options for a property control ( eg list of options and expressions) in multiple text areas Currently I have to always re-define the expressions every time I want to use the property control. It wo...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to push hotfix to client from server

    Right now we cannot push hotfix applied in server to client. We have to apply hotfix manually to client now and this is very time consuming.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / management 1 Future Consideration

    Connect Property Control Directly to Filter

    It would be great to have the ability for a property control (like a drop down with fixed values) to filter by a certain parameter (not a filter scheme) instead of using scripts.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Perform combination when doing Spearman R, rather than permutations

    The Spearman Rank under Data Relationships analyzes the correlation based on all permutation of the specified X & Y parameters specified. There is an inefficiency as the results of the correlation of A to B is the same as correlation of B to A...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Already exists

    Better faster searching in Spotfire Analyst, and parity with Web Player

    Searching the library in Analyst takes an inordinate amount of time for large libraries. We find it almost useless. It disregards the folder that user is currently in, thus, the entire library is searched. Every time regardless of the current fold...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration
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