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    To avoid manual intervention on property control to re-apply color rules

    We have a report visualization applied color rules based on a property control. However we have to select the property every time when a new value come in, to make sure the color rules gets re-applied correctly. We'd like to avoid this kind of int...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    show value of each cell as labels in heat map

    Customer would like to show value of each cell as labels in heat map, especially when number of cells is small.
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Cross tables: Vertical Axis Column width should move with the column

    In a cross table: If you have vertical axis columns with different width and you change the column order, the width of the columns is not moved together with the columns. This means that the width is fixed to the position of the column, not to the...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    change font of each part of the visualization

    What we know is that font settings only in "Visualization -> Canvas Styling -> Edit custom theme" are applied to PDF/Powerpoint export. The Font tab in Visualization Properties are not applied when export. However the configurable items unde...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add option to prevent the user from openning multiple Analysis files?

    As a developer, I would like the option to force my users of having only 1 Analysis file opened at a time (not in a new Window or Tab) using the Web Player. For example, consider the following use case:The user switches to EDIT mode and then click...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Library 5 Future Consideration

    Remove dragging of folders in Information Designer

    Remove the ability to drag folders to move them in the Information Designer. The function is rarely used deliberately and it's too easy to accidentally move a folder and then struggle to find it again.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Bookmarks: Make Apply special -> Filter settings -> Set only adjusted filters etc. available in API

    In the GUI, it is possible for bookmarks with stored filter settings to "Set all Filters", "Set only adjusted Filters" or "Mark filtered rows" via the Apply Special option. According to support, this is not available through the API. It would be g...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    more robust behavior when changing data tables for a visualization

    I have two unpivoted tables with 3 columns each. Account Name, Date, Cost Service Name, Date, Cost I set up a stacked bar chart for Accounts, completely configure it. I then duplicate it and change the data table to Services. Spotfire gives m...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Reliable distro files naming convention

    We had invested a lot of effort into building automations that would allow upgrade Spotfire quickly. Every such upgrade process starts with new distro files as inputs. But for some reason, distro filename convention keeps changing and it breaks o...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Allow html on calculated values or document properties

    Just saying. It could be very powerful to allow users to render html on text areas through Calculated Values or Document Properties. Consider this custom expression: "<b>test</b>" This renders as <b>test</b>, but it would b...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration
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