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    Pre-populate data table column descriptions from data catalog

    Spotfire 12.4 introduced a new feature allowing authors to apply descriptions to data table columns manually in the data analysis flyout. While this is great, and can be a tool for documenting projects, the fact that you have to do this in each in...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Legend Marking for Segments

    Marking from the legend is not currently supported for color mode "Segments". This is not intuitive. It is confusing that sometimes users can mark a color from the color by legend, but not always. We'd like to be able to mark when using segments a...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Data Source Configurable timeout setting

    In the Information Designer/Data Source, we would like to have a way to configure a data source timeout. We want more granularity to terminate connections if queries takes too long to execute from the application/client level. (Note that this is d...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 4 Future Consideration

    To improve collaboration, Store Lists in the same way Bookmarks are stored.

    Spotfire allows two methods to store the knowledge users generate when they assemble lists: Spotfire lists work great for single users, but are not good for collaboration. Tags allow for sharing list information, but require re-saving the DXP to ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Lists 0 Future Consideration

    Option to change default data loading method

    Data loading currently defaults to “Always New Data” Can we change the default to “New Data When Possible”?
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Option where Multiple Prompts should be displayed in a single screen

    By default user needs to go through all the Prompts step by step to get the data. Requirement is when multiple prompts are there in report all needs to be displayed in single page and one click is required after the data input/selection with all t...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Usage of I-pencil (i-pad) in Spotfire dashboard

    The Spotfire dashboard doesn't support i-pencil currently and we are able to choose or click the required option only through fingers. It would be really helpful if the Spotfire is enhanced with the i-pencil feature for more convenience purpose. P...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Please add a progress bar on the Spotfire Analyst client when downloading updates

    It would be useful to have a progress bar when downloading updates so that users can see if any data is actually being downloaded. On many occasions there have been large updates which give the false impression that the update process is dead whic...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Lines and Curves to use Column Matches

    See attached file. We have an ongoing issue where an (Empty) value in a Data Table Relation does not allow us to plot lines, while this exact same function works for custom expressions. The reason I got from support is basted below. This would be ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Setting for Case sensitivity

    Currently Spotifire is Case Sensitive which makes aggregations at certain level harder to manage. While you can do all sorts of string manipulation it would be nice to have a setting to turn on/off case sensitivity. For example , if you aggregate ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration
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