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    Ability to show and hide document pages via actions

    it would be really helpful if there were actions to show/hide the pages within an analysis document. This would be a bit like setting the visible property of a worksheet in Excel. This could be a dynamic action. This would enable a master page of ...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    Choose which columns get grand totals in cross-table

    We have a cross table where some columns (e.g. sales total) benefit from a grand total, whereas others (e.g. the sales rank of a product against other products) do not. We would like to have the option to choose whether a column gets a total. Ad...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Support IronPython Script for Data Export to Excel in Spotfire Web Player

    Currently, IronPython scripts that export data to Excel work seamlessly in the Spotfire client version but do not function when used in the Web Player. This limitation poses a significant challenge for users who rely on automated data exports from...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Cross table improvements to draw vertical gridlines and horizontal gridlines with shading option for better readability

    It improves the readability a lot of our reports. We would like the option to enable vertical lines only on certain cells either the left one or right one or both. Horizontally, having the shade improves readability
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Powerpoint Export API

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    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Way to calculate number of working week day

    We're looking for a simple way to calculate the number of working weekdays. In Spotfire, there is no simple function, but in Tableau, there is a "Weekday"DateDiff("weekday",[ORDER DATE],[DELIVERY DATE])In Spotfire, the closest I got is this refere...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 3 Future Consideration

    Expanded control of Curve/Line labels

    It would be extremely helpful if users can be granted significantly greater control over the formatting and placement of labels placed on plots. It is very common that labels are either cut off, in the wrong location (sometimes directly swapped wi...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Change default insert columns behavior

    The way that the Spotfire insert columns mechanism is built is it builds a list of columns to ignore, rather than a list of columns to insert. For example, let's say you have Table A with column A, B, and C. You insert column A into Table B. Then,...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Add capability to enable/disable items on top File menu (Consumer, Business Author + Analyst)

    This is useful when we expose certain reports to users but don't want them to have access to specific info/links. For example when Spotfire is embedded within custom portal. Specifically looking to disable "File -> View Library" and "Help ->...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire 1 Future Consideration

    Add the ability to format the date fields used on chart axis

    The main reason for this request is for charts visualising data on a weekly level. Currently, only the week number is available; it would be nice if there were some formatting options for this i.e. instead of week number show the first day of the ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Already exists
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