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    Option to display guidelines that track horizontally and vertically across visualisation charts

    Could we have "on hover" guidelines that track a mouse movement over a chart and help the user to orientate his or herself against the X and Y axes' values? This is particularly for scatter charts. It would be great if we could also display the ex...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Hide markers on Scatter Chart

    Add the option to hide markers on scatter graph and only show the line connectors. Currently, markers can only be displayed in the background, made very small and have relatively innocuous shapes assigned to them but this creates an untidy appeara...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Button to switch from copied table to original table in data canvas

    In data canvas i want to switch to the table which is copied in another table via a simple button. In big data models with a lot of tables you can switch easier to the table which is in the acutall shown table just copied / linked.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Application Profiler - Support for Configuration Blocks

    It's currently not possible to pass a configuration block to open a report using Application Profiler, an acknowledged limitation that would be useful to address. It means that those reports that require parameters to be passed can't be analyzed u...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Descriptive naming of operations in transformations in data canvas

    When working with the data canvas, it can be difficult to see details of the operations have been performed on the data. For example, every calculated column is listed as "Calculate new column". If there are lots of calculated column, each one mus...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    expose compact hierarchy filter for TreeMap

    TreeMaps are important hierarchical visualizations and navigating the hierarchy is an important interaction for treemaps. I do this all the time. So do my friends. Users are tyoically not modifying any of the other settings, but they need to navig...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Get the "Display Name" of expressions set from Property Control

    When using a Property Control based on a drop-down selection, where the "Set property value through" = Expressions, there is no way currently to get the "Display Name" values. These values can be re-used in Custom Expressions for example. Thank yo...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Spatial Data with ST_GEOMTERY data type

    It will allow to load the Spatial data from Oracle with ST_GEOMETRY data type top build Map chart with shapes.
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Create a File - JSON adapter, similar to the File - XML adapter

    We get numerous data files that are constructed with JSON. We need to import these files, transform them then either output them as database views, or export them as csv files.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 4 Already exists

    Adding more then 3 columns in y-axis/x axis should show all column name by default.

    In bar chart when more then 3 columns are selected then display name get clubbed into a single string like "4 columns" in y-axis. Customer want that by default all the column name should be visible. If space is an issue then at least a final displ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration
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