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Spotfire App for IOS or Andriod Devices should support Authoring of DXPs

It will be useful if we have a version of Spotfire Client app for IOS or Android Devices as well which can help to create reports on the fly directly in the devices.
about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Mobile Future Consideration

Line Chart - one line two colors

We would like to have a way to color 1 line two colors. The color by of a line chart currently splits it into two lines. We want 1 line colored color A above a threshold and color B below that threshold (threshold meaning a goal line).
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Clean up used BCP cache tmp files during the process instead of at the end

Consider SQL Server or Hyperscale SQL DB or any derivative thereof. Consider a source table(s) with 100 million+ rows that will be cached into a target SQL Server database and use BCP to perform the load operation. Consider that the disk TDV is in...
almost 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching Future Consideration

Resizable data column properties panel

The Data Column properties panel was resizable in Spotfire 7.14 which made it easier to see long value labels etc. See below for illustration: Since Spotfire 10.x the properties panel is no longer resizable which makes it harder to see everything ...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Drawing Order Option in Line Chart

Bring particular lines to the front of Line Chart visualization
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Tag users in Spotfire conversation feature and have the users being notified actively

when using the Spotfire conversation feature, it would be good to be able to tag users (like @dirk) - when connected to Spotfire server, it should send out a notification to any open client (web and desktop) to the specific user. Maybe would be go...
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Collaboration Future Consideration

Create Heat Maps in Spotfire WebPlayer

As a user, I would like the ability to add heat maps using the Spotfire web player. The behaviour of the heat map should be the same as the Spotfire Analyst client as well as the process to add it (i.e. using the "Visualization types" menu item in...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

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 Future Consideration

Size by or rotate by categorical data and subsets

Scatterplots support categorical data on both the x and the y-axis by placing the categories evenly spaced along the axis even though both are continuous by nature. It would be great if size by and rotate by worked the same way. That would make it...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Improving themes

One of the greatest things I like about Spotfire is how easily you can assign and use of colors, and export/import using a .dxpcolor file. On the themes side I find it could be improved You have an "import theme from file" but no "export to file...
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration
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