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    Sor values in a column by values in another column

    Say you have a month name or some period indicator like 'MAR-16' as a column. Then in the dataset there would be maybe another column with a time stamp. I would like to be able to sort the period indicator column by the values in the time stamp co...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Mods vs Native Visuals

    After working extensively with Mods in production scenarios, one limitation keeps surfacing over and over: Mods operate on a materialized data view, while native visuals operate on top of Spotfire’s semantic layer. This difference might seem subtl...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / API 3 Needs Info

    Sort within a hierarchy

    When a hierarchy is used in a bar chart category axis, and then the bars are sorted by value it sorts all the bars by absolute value, without any consideration for the hierarchy. This is not ideal as the reason for setting-up the hierarchy at time...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    WebStatistica reports splits in various pages instead of displaying on one page.

    WebStatistica reports splits in various pages instead of displaying on one page.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Display value of column width / row height during resize operation

    When a column is resized in Spotfire Analyst, it would be great to have the value displayed, like in Microsoft Excel. The same applies to the row height. Eventually have the same features for the Web Player. Thank you for your consideration. Kind ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    expose compact hierarchy filter for TreeMap

    TreeMaps are important hierarchical visualizations and navigating the hierarchy is an important interaction for treemaps. I do this all the time. So do my friends. Users are tyoically not modifying any of the other settings, but they need to navig...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    extended documentation for the classes of the library SMALLPARSERLib

    Customer asks for an extended documentation for the classes of the library, including example codes.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Provide function to open/close filter panel using javascript api and not just when the container is initialized, just like export to pdf

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    over 3 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Alias Columns in Information Designer Using Custom SQL

    I've noticed that on occasions where I'm required to use custom SQL in my information links that I'm unable to alias the column names. I'm all for renaming columns within a DXP, but several of my users share information links. This can become cumb...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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