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can combo chart bars be stackable?

I really need to have a stacked bar chart in the combo chart. I can increase the dimensionality of the visualization. I don't see a technical hurdle here.
12 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Public API to check/uncheck the "Show notifications about mismatches" option

When programmatically creating visualizations with two or more tables, it can be that the specified ColumnRelation(s) are enough to properly link the data but that not all columns involved in the visual are matched, i.e. the visual and tables are ...
almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Ability to wrap x and y axis titles

Currently, when x and y axis titles are long, it will overflow instead of wrapped. This seems to be a basic thing for most visualization but not Spotfire.
12 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Ability to export/share shapes, fonts, and marker size like colors

Currently, we are able to export (save as) colors based on category to be used by other plots. But there is no ability to do this for everything else like shapes, fonts, marker size, etc. This will safe a lot of time for us.
12 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Ability to remove outline of scatter plot markers

Currently, scatter plot markers are outlined. This is preventing us to use Spotfire for some publications that has very specific format requirements.
12 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

stats::nls() function in the TERR does not support port option

the stats::nls() function in the TERR, despite the version of R being 4.0.2 and despite nls showing that “port” is an option for the algorithm argument and the upper/lower arguments are available. Looks like TERR does not support the port algorith...
12 months ago in Spotfire / TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R Future Consideration

I want to analyze Library Favorites metadata

Customer is looking for a way to analyze metadata related to Library Favorites like which users tagged favorites to which dxps. *The only way to do this as of v14.6 is to import the LIB_PRINCIPAL_PROPS table from Spotfire Server database however t...
12 months ago in Spotfire / Library Future Consideration

show more information in data loading dialog

Currently we can get below information in data loading dialog when opening analysis or loading data, \! filetype=Spotfire.DataFormat.Text; version=2.0; \! property=Name; category=Column; type=String; \! property=DataType; category=Column; type=S...
almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Set the dimension to be used as a measure in the Essbase Connector

Following this idea: https://ideas.tibco.com/ideas/TS-I-5554 It would be useful to be able to set the dimension to be used a measure, even though there is already account dimension found by Spotfire. in short, being able to define (already implem...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

API & Examples for unit testing Spotfire extensions

As a developer, I find very important being able to unit test the code I implement for extending the Spotfire functionality: new visualizations, tools, etc. The documentation that comes together with the SDK has good examples about the different w...
over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration
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