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    Sort within a hierarchy

    When a hierarchy is used in a bar chart category axis, and then the bars are sorted by value it sorts all the bars by absolute value, without any consideration for the hierarchy. This is not ideal as the reason for setting-up the hierarchy at time...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Web Player - Scheduler to restart Node Manager services

    As per current way the Web Player works, images are cached in analyses and not refreshed. The only way to get an updated image would be to restart the service. The scheduler would then restart the Web Player service in question in order to get upd...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Allow Sorting by Total Value in Combination Chart

    Currently, the Combiniation Chart can be sorted by various X-Axis values, if it is using stacked bars. I would like the option to sort based on the sum of the stacked bar values.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    show full path of currently opened local dxp file

    Please show full path of currently opened local dxp file somewhere, probably File -> Document Properties dialog. For a dxp file opened from library, the library path can be found from above dialog too.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Add other grand total options for aggregation

    This would solve so many work arounds necessary if there was a way to take a cross table's grand total box and customize the aggregation used rather than only have Sum available. If i could select Avg to create an avg grand total it would work the...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add 'Configuring an email notification' to Spotfire Server web UI

    Configuring email & http notifications and then adding or removing notifications are currently all done through the Command Line Interface and not the Spotfire Server web portal. It would be a very helpful feature to have Spotfire Server Web U...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Restrict Data Export for Authors and Analysts on special Analysis files / Visualizations

    We have some confidential data which we'd like to protect and users not allow to export. This is possible for users with Consumer role. Here the admin easily de-flags "Allow table data export in Spotfire web clients" under Appearance before publis...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 2 Future Consideration

    Make Remember Personalized View option work with Custom Scripting and Properties

    Dear Team, Our customer is utilizing IronPython scripts to add custom properties within their Spotfire analyses. This customization appears to affect the behavior of the "Personalized View" option, resulting in unexpected synchronization issues be...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Searching chart information in Library

    I wish there were the ability to search for chart information (type, description, title..) in the library without opening Spotfire dxp. If we have a chart search function, we can refer to similar charts created by others and avoid creating duplic...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Likely to implement
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