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    Remove 'Prepared Reports' via Spotfire API

    Create ability to remove prepared reports with the Spotfire API. Right now, I believe only viewing a list of existing reports and exporting existing reports is possible.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Side-By-Side Bars to Overlap

    Several users are disappointed that Spotfire doesn't have all the charting features available in Excel. One feature I'd like to see is the ability to overlap side-by-side bars. I know we can stack bars, but that is not what I'm talking about. The ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Information Links to TDV Virtual Views migration

    Various Spotfire customers rely on 1000's of Information Links. Since IL's can't keep data external current investments in new and fast In Memory DB's (like SAP HANA) can't be leveraged fully. Moving away from IL's is a tedious task when there are...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Add a new property, e.g. "ExpressionWithoutAlias" to solve the problem of adding x-axis display name by using a custom expression to scatter plot breaks y-axis expression

    Visualizations display nothing when renaming X-axis with custom expression in any visualization with the following custom expression on the Y-axis : "NormInv (1 - (Rank(${Axis.X.Expression},"asc","ties.method=first") / (Count(${Axis.X.Expression})...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Add list-library-content as administration command

    Ability to list library content to use for CICD related tasks, this list/verify if the source/destination content/structure exists. Listing should have the same parameters like item-type in export-library-command so you can list specific items lik...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    API to get display name of an axis expression

    By default, the display name of an axis expression has slightly different syntax than the expression itself, e.g. "Max([col1])" is displayed as "Max(col1)". The display name is needed for several use cases, e.g. as category key in a color scheme a...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Create a searchable catalogue of Spotfire Analyses

    My thoughts on an improvement to the product would be a concept of a catalogue, where I could build an analysis and then "publish" it with a description of what it is to a catalogue. people could browse/search the catalogue find something that loo...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration

    Add hatching option to color setting

    Please add a hatching option to the color settings. Hatching is another way to increase color variation.
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Show more than 250 colors in the legend

    Please increase the MaxValuesPerLegendItem from 250 to 1000 or more. In the manufacturing field, it is now common to apply 500 or more colors to each defect category and identify them with a legend.
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Admins to post in-tool messages to all connected clients.

    To provide better user engagement and more efficient use of resources, especially in light of dynamically scaling down the number of active Spotfire servers in a cloud configuration, Spotfire Admins should be able to broadcast important messages t...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration
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