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Short Format Customization

Make all of the numbers in a column to be shown in the same short format. For example I have a number in the millions but I want it to show as 0.20Bn. I created a Short format saying 10^9 show billions but anything under a billion is showing the f...
almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions Future Consideration

Add section to themes to configure buttons

I would love to see a section added to themes for formatting the buttons in terms of button color, border, font and size. As the software is currently designed, if you want to reformat a button, you have to do it individually, which is time consum...
almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area Future Consideration

When zoom slider is enabled, min/max of X/Y axis does not changed automatically

Min/Max of X/Y axis does not changed automatically when zoom slider is enabled in plots like Bar chart, so we we need them to be changed automatically when it's enabled. To reproduce this issue: 1. Draw a Bar chart. 2. Go to property -> X or Y ...
almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

A function that centrally visualizes and manages what databases dashboards created on Spotfire are connected to.

Currently, we can check what database each dashboard created in Spotfire is connected to by opening the dashboard and displaying the data canvas. However, in the above, we can only check the dashboard that is open. We would like a function that al...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Private folder for Business Author

Our Business Author needs to save some of their DXP file in a private space. Sometime they need to share, and some other not. Or because it's sensible, or because it's not finish. With 3000 users, that come and goes, we can't do it by hand... so w...
almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library Future Consideration

Web Services API Examples

Provide simple examples of using Web Services APIs, especially for the tasks in Automation Services that are deprecated and will someday have to be replaced with custom coding in web services.
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration Future Consideration

Allow User to Select Column DefaultCategoricalColorScheme or DefaultContinuousColorScheme from Available Color Schemes

Currently in the "Properties" for a column pulled into Spotfire you can adjust set the DefaultCategoricalColorScheme or DefaultContinuousColorScheme properties for a column by manually typing the name of one of the "Document Color Schemes" within ...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Data On Demand - Dynamically Select Columns

We have data sets with large number of data columns and in some cases the user is only interested in a small number of columns. I would like to be able to let them pick the columns and then load a much smaller data set only including those columns...
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Enable global/local config to set the default formatting for Data Type

Scenario Data Table with a date-type column, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD - e.g., 2023-06-20. Goal Convert the date to string, with format retained. Current State Two-step workaround: 1. Convert Date format to YYYY-MM-DD via Data > Column property. ...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

We need better support for collaboration when working on 1 analysis file

Hello, my team and I have to do work on 1 analysis file which is delivered to our customers as part of our releases. To avoid losing changes, we have agreed that only 1 person is allowed to apply changes at a time. To keep track of the changes we ...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Library Future Consideration
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