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    Export Spotfire table visualization into Editable PowerPoint table

    I am writing to you today to request the addition of a new feature to the Spotfire product. I am a user of Spotfire, and I have found it to be a very powerful and versatile tool for data analysis. However, I have one major request for improvement....
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to change thickness of axis lines

    Currently, we are unable to change the thickness of the axis lines. When the plot is bigger, the axis lines looks thinner. Because of that, the color became lighter and looks grey.
    11 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    In data canvas, upon clicking on any field, it would highlight/color code the associated source data table and downstream transformations.

    It is difficult to know how a field is related to all other fields after combining many datasets and having layers of transformations, so it would be ideal to know after clicking the field in any dataset, which dataset it originally came from and ...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Combine shape and color in legend

    Currently, shape and color in plot legend are separated. Even when they are unique where orange will always be triangle and green will always be square. Ideally, combine it when they are unique. We will then have a more straightforward legend and ...
    11 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    SQL fragment parameters in infolinks

    Support for cases similar to https://ideas.spotfire.com/ideas/TS-I-9745, even more complex situations
    11 months ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Add GeoJSON column type

    Spotfire can already parse geoJSON files and ESRI using geoJSON as a type to be accessed through their API. If the column type existed we could use geoJSON through a database connection to TDV.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Allow Custom Expressions to be written using IronPython

    The current custom expression language is adequate for simple expressions, but having a full fledged python interpreter would greatly increase the readability and utility of these expressions/functions. Further, since the current custom expression...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

    Color Scheme doesn't retain custom colors

    It is nice to be able to create a color scheme with custom colors (using the colors coordianates). Now when you finish creating this color schema and want to reuse the color scheme you saved, all the colors you have created disapeare. It would be ...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Need for folder-based licensing, or change in Browse permission to disable saving / exporting content (security leak)

    In my Spotfire Library, there are some files containing sensitive data that I do not want users to save, either back to the Library or to the file system, nor do I want them to Export data or visualizations, etc., from those files. I can limit acc...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Javascript API to reference specific visuals on a page

    I would like to request that the javascript api be allowed to reference specific visuals on a page and not just the whole page itself. This would allow greater reuse of existing DXPs as I could have a DXP used from within the normal Spotfire web p...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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