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    JavaScript in V7

    Hello We used javascript function in 6.5. It seems that some on them (like on('change',function() ) does not work anymore. We had some accordion in text area that know won't work correctly. I there a documentation somewhere about what change to wh...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Will not implement

    Allow manual sorting of the "selected columns" associated with a property control

    The current alternative to workaround not being able to sort the columns within a spotfire property is to used fixed values option would reduce the flexibility of the solution, should columns be renamed for example, and also maintaining the fixed ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    please improve config.bat show-preference command

    please improve config.bat show-preference command, (1) remove option <-p value | --type=value>, because it's not documented and no way to know what it should be. (2) add option to show preference for a specific user. We need this to determin...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Please write preferences applied to WP/AS to ServiceConfig.<guid>.txt

    Please write preferences applied to WP/AS to ServiceConfig.<guid>.txt This information is available to Analyst only,e.g. Application.LibraryPreferences.EmbedAllData: False Application.LibraryPreferences.ForceEmbedAllData: False Application...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Add (line/bar chart) label option for Min/Max only ("Sparkline switch")

    When using line or bar charts, it would improve readability, if only the relevant data points are labeled, e.g. first, last, min, max points. This is often seen in Sparklines and the setting could be named like this in Settings-Labels
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Expressions - formula in-line context

    Add functionality like found in other coding languages (R, SQL, even Excel) which would show preview text when creating a new custom expression. For example: When you start typing... dateadd( you would see something like... dateadd( 'increment'...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Display total elapsed time in file open details dialog

    Snowball's chance in hell, but what the hell. The open from library dialog shows fine grained detail on elapsed times for the various load operation components, and it all looks very impressive, but it does not add up the total elapsed time for th...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    More visible Destroy Cache button

    One of the TDV customers requested that the Destroy Cache button be placed in a more visible position as shown in the attached image.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Unlikely to implement

    Save marker shape settings as a file

    Color settings for markers such as scatter plots can be saved as a file (ColorScheme.dxpcolor) and can be easily copied to other scatter plots. Similarly, it would be convenient if shape settings for markers could be saved as a file.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Keep formatting in cross table when display name of column changes

    When the display name of a column (cell value) in a cross table changes, the formatting settings are reset. This is highly annoying, especially when column names include a document property which is changed by a user. After each change, the format...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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