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    Spotfire Analyst - Display value of column width / row height during resize operation

    When a column is resized in Spotfire Analyst, it would be great to have the value displayed, like in Microsoft Excel. The same applies to the row height. Eventually have the same features for the Web Player. Thank you for your consideration. Kind ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Sor values in a column by values in another column

    Say you have a month name or some period indicator like 'MAR-16' as a column. Then in the dataset there would be maybe another column with a time stamp. I would like to be able to sort the period indicator column by the values in the time stamp co...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    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...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Bookmarks Manager and Highlight Current Bookmark.

    Customers would like to be able to have the option to custom arrange their bookmarks. Also, they would like the current bookmark that is being viewed to be highlighted in the Bookmarks Bar.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Bookmarks 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

    Connectivity with Graph Databases

    Be able to connect to graph DBs like Ne04j without using data functions and to interactively query it to create network charts.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Display a custom panel when no document is open

    Ability to have custom panels be accessible before any document is opened is needed to support scenarios where the panel has functionality that allows the user to open a document or creating a new document from data.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Enable table reload with prompt from IronPython in Web player

    Table reload is available to be triggered as a script in the client, the same is not available on the web. This leads for inconsistent report design and the need to try and train users to access the menu for reload but can configure action buttons...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    Local File Storage adapter cannot estimate date type

    I have tested the following 5 patterns, but none of them could generate a DATE type. 1. value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyy-MM-dd" → INTEGER 2. Value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyyMMMdd" → INTEGER 3. Value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyyMMMdd" → INTE...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Alias Columns in Information Designer Using Custom SQL

    I've noticed that on occasions where I'm required to use custom SQL in my information links that I'm unable to alias the column names. I'm all for renaming columns within a DXP, but several of my users share information links. This can become cumb...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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