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    Y-axis equalization across two visuals in a single page

    Useful to compare two visuals driven from two different data-set having different scales in bar-chart / combo-chart y-axis. For e.g. Backlog in one visual versus Forecast in the other visual.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    add capability to allow file I/O access

    Please add capability to allow file I/O under management. We have seen lots of use cases that utilize IronPythonscripts (possibly migrate to action mods in the future) to export data to csv, load data from csv, export pdf to file, etc.
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Mods 0 Future Consideration

    missing supported file types

    Some missing supported file types are common (.tsv tab separated values) and others specialized (.vcf and .sam for bioinformatics). It would be nice to have the option to try to open any file type
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Columns as python script parameters

    It would be good if columns could be used as input parameter for pyhton scripts. Tables are possible but I'd like to use columns.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Add Connectivity to Canary Data Historian

    As an oil & gas client, we collect millions of data points from field/plant automation points through Cygnet and store data in the Canary data historian - a NoSQL timeseries database. Canary suggests using the ODBC driver to connect to Spotfir...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Request for adding a new scatter plot that allows the marker rectangle to be resized to any size

    At the request of a semiconductor manufacturer user, please implement a new visualization or additional scatter plot functionality so that the following scatter plots can be created. Specify the center position of the marker as in a scatter plot M...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow numbers in symbol sets for short number format

    I have no clue why this is not allowed: I'd like to use numbers in symbol sets. This would be nice e.g. for formatting numbers on log scales. You could define a symbol set *10^-3, *10^-2, *10^-1 etc. which cannot be achieved another way. But this ...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Dotplots as alternative for histograms

    Histograms are very good to visualize medium to large size of dataset. However, smaller samples get usually poorly represented. If the data points are spread appart, the histogram bars do not build a shape. If the data is very clustered, the histo...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Kerberos - AdditionalTools

    It would be nice, if in the future releases of the Spotfire Server we could have GUI tools for the keytab file generation, like the "keytabGUI"(https://sourceforge.net/projects/keytabgui/?source=typ_redirect). Or an additional tool like the "ktuti...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire dxp version history feature comments

    If the version history function is currently turned on, you can turn off the version history function for each dxp. However, on the other hand, when the version history function is turned off, the version history function cannot be turned on fo...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration
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