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    Ability to adjust width and height of a visual through API (using python)

    Our dashboards have a large number of pages. Each page has the same textarea. It would be great to be able to set the width of these through an API call. Same for panels (e.g. make all filter panels same width on each page when showing)
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Set scale range to expression(aggregation)

    I thing it will be better to put aggregation / expression like avg instead of Value.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Terminating python script while it is running

    There a lot of useful functions that are missing when working with python scripts. For example being able to terminate a python script while it is running. There are many ways of adding this into the script such as having the script open a new win...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Categorical Axis: Custom expression to define min/max values for date axis

    Short summary: Unable to control the last period displayed on a time series bar chart if the final period has no data. For example, if the last period I want displayed in the bar chart is December but the YAxis Count() for December is zero, Novemb...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Access miniatures in text areas via the API

    Sometimes the need arises to manipulate a text area using IronPython to change specific parts of the text area. However, when changing the html content of a text area using IronPython you often destroy the Spotfire dynamic contents (calculated v...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Option for Responsive Textarea and Cross Table

    This feature will be useful because textarea will automatically adjust to fit to your screen. I think this feature will benefit the developers and end user. Especially organizations with different type of devices which will produce different scree...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Data Table Description

    I need the ability to add a detailed description of a data table in the Spotfire client. When I have multiple data tables in a complex analysis, it is easy to lose track of what purpose each data table serves. I experimented with adding a new Data...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    Be able to set default values for filters without coding

    In many cases, I would like to set default filters, and there is no out of the box way to do it, it requires some code that my client (and I) want to avoid. for exemple, I need to show by default only the open tickets, but don't want to prevent en...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Manual setting of primary key column (Impala, DB2, etc)

    When using external data, detail visualisations need a primary key in the datasource for markings to be applied. In case of views or custom queries, the resultset has no primary key defined on the database level. Would be great when we could selec...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Create a 'List box' property control with expression within a text area using a table apart from the default table

    While working in the Property control dialog, select the property and set 'Set property value through' to 'Expressions'. However, when you attempt to Edit the Expression, only the column names from the default table are visible but not other tables.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration
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