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Change the Font size of Chart Axis

Hello Team, We would like to get the option to change the Font size of the Chart X or Y Axis axis name (not the scale labels) in the Chart Properties or Tools>Option>Fonts pop-up window rather then changing from the Custom Themes settings wh...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Legend Marking for Segments

Marking from the legend is not currently supported for color mode "Segments". This is not intuitive. It is confusing that sometimes users can mark a color from the color by legend, but not always. We'd like to be able to mark when using segments a...
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Show/hide cross table columns

Ability to Hide / Unhide the column that we not required. Like in Excel. This works also when I have multiple Horizontal Column in the Cross Table.
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Data Source Configurable timeout setting

In the Information Designer/Data Source, we would like to have a way to configure a data source timeout. We want more granularity to terminate connections if queries takes too long to execute from the application/client level. (Note that this is d...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services Future Consideration

Provide a global "Cancel" functionality (using a hot-key) within the Spotfire session

We need a global "Cancel"/"Abort" functionality (using a hot-key like Esc or Ctrl-C) within the Spotfire session, to stop/kill the last operation/process/thread. In many occasions, users invoke (by mistake) an operation that takes a very long time...
over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience Future Consideration

Option where Multiple Prompts should be displayed in a single screen

By default user needs to go through all the Prompts step by step to get the data. Requirement is when multiple prompts are there in report all needs to be displayed in single page and one click is required after the data input/selection with all t...
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Client SSO login without opening an external browser window

As currently configured, SSO client sign-on seems to require popping open an external browser window to handle the OIDC authentication. Can this be handled by Spotfire internally instead? This will improve the user experience - no more accumulated...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration Future Consideration

Please add a progress bar on the Spotfire Analyst client when downloading updates

It would be useful to have a progress bar when downloading updates so that users can see if any data is actually being downloaded. On many occasions there have been large updates which give the false impression that the update process is dead whic...
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation Future Consideration

Allow Lines and Curves to use Column Matches

See attached file. We have an ongoing issue where an (Empty) value in a Data Table Relation does not allow us to plot lines, while this exact same function works for custom expressions. The reason I got from support is basted below. This would be ...
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Setting for Case sensitivity

Currently Spotifire is Case Sensitive which makes aggregations at certain level harder to manage. While you can do all sorts of string manipulation it would be nice to have a setting to turn on/off case sensitivity. For example , if you aggregate ...
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration
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