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    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...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 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

    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

    Map Label Format

    Giving users to format further maps like in other visualization would allow more flexibility. If i would like to show % on a map, one needs to calculate a new column in order to duplicate the targeted column format it in %. This makes it quite hea...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 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

    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

    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

    At the intersection of two datasets within data canvas, have the ability to replace both as if you could with an individual dataset.

    If you want to merge two datasets that could be parts of a whole with many transformations after that merge, there should be an option to replace the dataset at the intersection with the complete dataset so that the transformations that would be d...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Add "Import JMP" option in "Data" tab

    In the "Data" tab, there are a number of "Import Data" options. Users would like a node to import JMP files as well.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    API for changing custom query

    Please add API function that can be called by e.g. an IronPython script to custom query and reload again
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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