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    Add borders around each cell in a heat map

    I've made a heat map and can't figure out how to add a black or white border around each cell in the heat map. Thanks!
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Custom tool context menu item text based on marking

    GetMenuTextCore() does not have any option to get the CutomTool context. It would be great to have the option to show an item base on the current marking. Users want to see beter and more explicit descriptions in the context menu items : e.g. - w...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    enable copy on expression fields in data canvas

    I think you are able to do this in Analyst. I needed to copy the Expression text out of the Column Properties in the Web Player data canvas, since its the only way to get to them on the WP. They are pretty gnarly. Unfortunately this is not possibl...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 1 Needs Info

    Update the "Open from Library" dialog to aggregate open time and correct the problems with it.

    The file open dialog gives a readout of the steps taken with a running timer for each. Unfortunately, the data is useless. It does not aggregate the total time, and it drops values of the intermediate steps. I personally watched a file load in sev...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 3 Future Consideration

    Ability to save or export visualization properties and import them into other analysis

    Users with complex visualizations (with a large number of properties/configurations) require the ability to export just the visualization metadata such that they can be imported into other analysis for use with similar data sets. At present, to sa...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to push hotfix to client from server

    Right now we cannot push hotfix applied in server to client. We have to apply hotfix manually to client now and this is very time consuming.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / management 1 Future Consideration

    Connect Property Control Directly to Filter

    It would be great to have the ability for a property control (like a drop down with fixed values) to filter by a certain parameter (not a filter scheme) instead of using scripts.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    add the ability to color code cross tables with nested headers

    I have a cross table with 3 layers of headers and need to color row values per column. First Header Level: in the example below if all 1a's were merged together that would be Customer if all the 2a's were merged that would be Network Second Heade...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Formatting of aggregated numbers on tooltips and labels on a map

    How can I format aggregated numbers on tooltips and labels on a map. Seems like this functionality is missing.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom size in Export to PDF

    Currently in Spotfire PDF it has default Paper Sizes like A4, A3 , Letter etc. But I need some custom size of 11* 17, is there a workaround or can you implement custom sizes in PDF.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Export 1 Future Consideration
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