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    Error Bar full customization and shading

    Transparency, thickness, line style, should be customizable on error bars. Shading between error bar max/min also needed
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Apply themes to entire UI

    Side bars, toolbars, should have canvas theme applied. The Spotfire defaults can look out of place / less-professional with custom themes.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Trust all for custom SQL in connectors

    Extremely tedious and error-prone to trust individual SQL statements. A "Trust All" functionality would be helpful.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Limit input options on f(x) flyout

    Limit options for input params so user cannot select data in an unintended way. For instance, Column selection may not want to allow column expression.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Allow in-memory functions for streaming data

    Custom expressions for streaming data are more limited than for in-memory data. Also marking can cause issues. Mostly I only want to calculate columns or expressions on visuals only for the data currently in Spotfire. Would there be some way to ap...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Data Streams 0 Future Consideration

    Overlay Property Controls on Charts

    Overlay property controls on charts to reduce need for reserved text areas and so actions/filters related to visuals can be kept close to each other.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Default value for optional parameters in data functions

    When an optional parameter is used, I have to test in the data function whether the parameter is set using is.null() and assign it a default value. e.g. if(is.null(optPar)) {optPar = "something} because otherwise the code usually fails because you...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to have the disk cache used after a Web Player restart even if it is older than the last scheduled update (but within max age setting)

    Currently (in 7.8) when the Spotfire Nodemanager service is restarted, the web player will attempt to reload all scheduled updates that are written to disk cache. There is one exception, scheduled updates that were in progress during a reset will ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Connectors Load Type Visibility

    Show whether in memory or in database when creating connection as you often don't realise it defaults to in-database. Change default to in-memory or allow it to be configurable in options or administration manager.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Date Format on Axes

    The ability to input the date display type similar to Excel format codes (e.g., YYYY, YY-MMM, etc.) – without overriding / depending on the underlying column format
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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