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    Add margins, background color and position to Trellis headers

    It would make a report look much nicer if you were to add top, bottom , left and right margins to the Trellis headers. Right now the formatting is limited to font size. Increasing the size will increase the font size but the title itself is squish...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Bring back option to have the file name as part of the file URL

    Prior to Spotfire version 11.4, when you saved a file to the library, the resulting file URL had the option to have the name of the file as part of the URL. In v11.4, it's a string of letters and numbers which makes it impossible to tell what file...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Will not implement

    Highlight all related data on visualizations on one-to-many relations)

    Scenario Two data tables have a Relation on a common column, as well as Column Match. When mouse hovers on a data point/row in a Scatter and Table visualizations respectively, a separate Line Chart responds by spotlighting the corresponding data (...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Server - Know the version of the Spotfire Analyst deployed (similar to config version command)

    As it is possible to know the current version of the Spotfire Server with the command 'config version', could this be done as well to know the version of the Spotfire Analyst in a deployment area, from a command line? Would be great to have when m...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Skip NULL fields in JSON responses (REST Data Service)

    When exposing a table/view using REST Data Services, the JSON responses include fields with a NULL value explicitly. In some cases for tables sparsely populated this can add a lot of overhead (tons of NULL fields). This is being the case reported...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 Future Consideration

    Table relations and cycles

    When you get to a certain level of complexity in your DXP file, you often hit problems with cyclic dependencies between data tables. It would be extremely helpful to be shown where the cycles exist when you are trying to add new relations. Further...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Collaboration / Conversations Customization via IronPython API

    The collaboration / conversations feature in Spotfire where users can make comments on a specific visualization is cool, except there are some features that I would prefer to control programmatically. For example, I would like to be able to disabl...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Collaboration 1 Future Consideration

    Hyperlink directly to Information Links/Column Objects directly from within Data Table or Column properties

    You know what I have to do 50 times a day? Edit->Data Table Properties Copy out the GUID of the information link Close Data Table Properties Open Information Designer Search for id::xxxxxxx (GUID) Why cant I just have a hyperlink in data t...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Axes parameters and formatting is limited

    There is no way to adjust scales for logarithimc scales. provided sclaes look odd, not representative of log 10, small tick cannot be adjusted either. Scales for linear axed cannot be broken in (at least 2) segments. This "crunches " data is a poi...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Actions 0 Future Consideration

    Box Plot transparency for outliers only

    When adjusting the transparency of box plots (in Visualization Properties > Appearance), this should apply only to outlier points and not box itself. Transparency is useful for seeing when multiple points overlap. I'm less interested in making ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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