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    Treemap should allow Color by Categorial Values (without need for Aggregation method)

    Treemap is a very powerful visualisation for hierarchical data. I found it surprising, that for Color you always have to select an aggregation method. Color has to be a continuous value and cannot be a category. In other visulizations like bar cha...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    add option to not register supported file extensions while installing Analyst

    Many of our customers are facing the issue that csv/xls/xlsx files are associated to Analyst automatically after Analyst is installed. Below is the explanation from support, =================== Unfortunately, this is the default behavior of certai...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Option to show custom application and document tools in any standard Spotfire menu

    As a developer or an administrator I want to show my custom tools in any native Spotfire menu, like File, Data or Help, or in a custom sub-menu below. This would give the flexibility to show custom functionality in more logical places when using ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    File Routing and/or Deny Open for Scheduled Updates Change

    We like having scheduled-updates.performance.deny-open-when-not-scheduled set to true in config.bat so that users don't try to open large cached analyses outside of their scheduled window. However, we also want to be able to route a specific file ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 2 Future Consideration

    Visualize months with single letter code

    When visualizing trends using binned dates it would definitely help to have the possibility to visualize a single letter code for months instead of the three letter codes. When all months are displayed it could help in optimizing the visualization.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    export visualization configuration to text file

    Customer want to have tha ablity to export all visualization configuration, e.g. data settings / axis settings / lines and curves etc, to text file, in order to describe it in design document, as well as compare two visualizations.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Initiate script (or action control click) through user-defined hotkey or keystroke

    I create and use dashboards with many action control buttons that trigger various scripts. The only way to use these dashboards involves a tremendous amount of mouse movement and clicking. It's slow, and frustrating, and strenuous on the index fin...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    seamlessly Zooming in/out of data - using 'layers' in general charts

    Take an easy example: you are displaying a Bubble chart that aggregates some data on some categories. 'Zooming in' (e.g. via mouse scrolling) would mean that going into detail for that category in focus would show all the data points behind that c...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Scheduling & Routing - See Load Status for File Rules

    It would be very useful to show the load status for each file rule alongside the "Execution" datetime (that shows the last run datetime for the rule) on the "Overview" page of "Scheduling & Routing".This is useful because if the Web Player ins...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    Add global parameter that can be applied to custom queries

    Add a global parameter that can be applied to custom queries query parameters so the parameter can be defined prior to executing the queries. Allow the use of these params in custom queries so the query can be run with settings of imported data, a...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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