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    Create Hierarchies in connectors

    If hierarchies could be create in the connection, there would only be the need to model them once and use them whenever the connection is used. At the moment, hierarchies have to be created every time a new report is made. Using templates is a wor...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    option to load all numeric data(int,real,etc) as real

    Spotfire automatically determines data type from first 100 rows of data when loading data from text/excel. A new option is expected by users, that is, "load all numeric data (determined as integer or real or others) as real", in order to use real ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Display total elapsed time in file open details dialog

    Snowball's chance in hell, but what the hell. The open from library dialog shows fine grained detail on elapsed times for the various load operation components, and it all looks very impressive, but it does not add up the total elapsed time for th...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    JavaScript in V7

    Hello We used javascript function in 6.5. It seems that some on them (like on('change',function() ) does not work anymore. We had some accordion in text area that know won't work correctly. I there a documentation somewhere about what change to wh...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Will not implement

    Add (line/bar chart) label option for Min/Max only ("Sparkline switch")

    When using line or bar charts, it would improve readability, if only the relevant data points are labeled, e.g. first, last, min, max points. This is often seen in Sparklines and the setting could be named like this in Settings-Labels
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow manual sorting of the "selected columns" associated with a property control

    The current alternative to workaround not being able to sort the columns within a spotfire property is to used fixed values option would reduce the flexibility of the solution, should columns be renamed for example, and also maintaining the fixed ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Save marker shape settings as a file

    Color settings for markers such as scatter plots can be saved as a file (ColorScheme.dxpcolor) and can be easily copied to other scatter plots. Similarly, it would be convenient if shape settings for markers could be saved as a file.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    More visible Destroy Cache button

    One of the TDV customers requested that the Destroy Cache button be placed in a more visible position as shown in the attached image.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Unlikely to implement

    Custom Expressions - formula in-line context

    Add functionality like found in other coding languages (R, SQL, even Excel) which would show preview text when creating a new custom expression. For example: When you start typing... dateadd( you would see something like... dateadd( 'increment'...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Put a cumsum line in as a possible set line for bar graphs

    This is a very common line on a bar graph
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire 4 Already exists
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