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    Option to choose a more obvious "processing..." status

    While an analysis is loading additional data the only thing that is displaying it sometimes (like when using scripts etc) is a label saying "processing..." on the lower left corner of the screen. It would be nice to be able to set a more obvious l...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to Hide or Disable the Data Sources tab in Information Designer

    Information Designer users can easily see data sources that have been created by other users using the Data Sources tab in Information Designer. It is often unintentional that teams expose their data sources in this way. It enables and encourages ...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 4 Future Consideration

    Default Color By Not Choosing the Same Colors

    Currently, even with a Color By of less than 20 options, by default, Spotfire will use the same color for more than one of the options. Is there a way for the default settings to not choose the same color until you reach a very large number of cat...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    When exporting to PDF or Powerpoint allow the option to repeat a visualization with each page

    There are times when one visualization is a critical reference for other visualizations in a page. It would be helpful if there was some type of option to make it so that when things are exporting that you could make it so that when items on a pag...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 2 Future Consideration

    Allow Data Entry field to take on the width of the label or characteristic name

    A data entry setup's label name should be wide enough by default to view the entire label name in the data entry view. to go in and modify width of all fields becomes very time consuming
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Data Entry Modes across top of Page should be removed

    Get rid of the "data entry modes" such as 'create new', 'view matching', 'edit', 'approve'. Should be able to do all functions within the data entry set up Each of the modes can lead to confusion
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Add driver support for datetimeoffset datatype in Spotfire

    Currently columns with datetimeoffset format are no available in information links when using MS SQL driver. Spotfire does not support the datetimeoffset datatype so any columns that have this format are "invisible" when accessing MS SQL databases...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Prompt before canceling "Edit Column Properties" dialog

    When using the Column Properties dialog, it is very easy to spend time adding/editing several new calculated columns (using a child "Insert/Edit Calculated Column" dialog with it's own OK/Cancel buttons) and instead of clicking the OK button to co...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Multiple values as prompt type in Input Parameters to Stored Procedure element

    Spotfire Information Services should support multiple values as prompt type in Input Parameters to Stored Procedure element.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to change column name in an information link

    I am having a problem renaming a column in an information link to be effective in a Spotfire analysis.To be more precise, i created an information link in which there is a join between 2 tables. This join results in adding 2 columns to my pincipal...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration
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