Skip to Main Content
Spotfire Ideas Portal
ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 4339
130 VOTE

Multiple scales in box plot

Create a box plot with two items on the y-axis, and then set Trellis By to 'Column Names'. The scaling in both panels is the same so you cannot get reasonable looking box plots. Expected: You should be able to to into the y-axis Property and selec...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

Bulk-changes of dxp files

When you need to make a change in a dxp/analysis file - e.g. change a connection string to point to a new location, or fix a bug in a script - that's usually easy, but often, you want to make the same change in any affected dxp file (there might b...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

should be telling us invalid part of the custom expression visually, not in writting

When an expression written in the custom expression is incorrect or when a function is invalid, an error is displayed with a red exclamation mark which telling us wrong part in writting, not visually. However it is not clear which part of the expr...
almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

formatting

When you create a worksheet template, the line spacing between related items is too wide for a hard line break (Enter only). Therefore, we now use a soft line break (Shift + Enter) to partially close the line spacing. However, this method may br...
about 2 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Needs Info

IronPython functionality to Share formatted table visualizations as Excel spreadsheets

This new feature from Spotfire 14 but in Spotfire Analyst API so IronPython can automate the export to Excel while retaining formatting. I currently kick of cache refresh via SOAP API when we have data updates to our database. It would be great if...
about 2 months ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

add "Rename" to the context menu of "Views in Connections" dialog

Please add "Rename" to the context menu of table list in the "Views in Connections" dialog. See attached screenshot. Some may not notice that single click can rename a table.
3 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement
118 VOTE

in-visualization drill down on chart axes hierarchies and cross-table axes levels

Currently when you have a hierarchy on either a cross-table OR a visualisation axes ie. Year->Month->Day or Country->State->town... you cannot drill through the Hierachy - only expand it to show EVERY single value across every level of...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 12 Future Consideration
117 VOTE

Calculated Columns that Filter With Data

Calculated Columns are powerful but often not useful if they don't recalculated based on filtered data. We've developed scrips to flag filtered records and calculate over that flag but this requires the user to click a button every time they filte...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration
117 VOTE

Better support of web services

When you need to consume data from a web service in Spotfire there are different options like implementing a custom data source, develop an Iron Python script, use an R script on your Stats server or use something like Composite or Jboss Teiid tha...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration

Email Hyperlink

Other BI platforms allow for email by clicking on an icon. It would be useful to have the same in Spotfire so that when we are given an example of a dashboard to reverse engineer, we can add that functionality. The lack of it gives the appearance ...
27 days ago in Spotfire / Actions 2 Future Consideration