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    Color line items for a column value wrapped in a hierarchy.

    I want to draw attention to particular rows in which the string values meet specific criteria. If my y-axis column is just "costs" then I can color based on value, but it being a hierarchy I have no option to color on any level.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Better indication as to why the launch RStudio button is disabled

    We've found that even though we have RStudio installed we see the button within Spotfire disabled. It's taken quite a bit of troubleshooting using the ProcMon tool to discover that Spotfire relies on specific registry entries to find RStudio - and...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    Disable the pdf export option in the right-click pop-up menu

    I want to process the PDF export function using only the javascript API. When a group disables a pdf export license, the pdf javascript API export is disabled. I hope that the pdf export option will be disabled only in the right-click menu and...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Please add the ability to assign deployment areas by group not only to the Administration Console but also to the Administration Manager.

    Please add the ability to assign deployment areas by group not only to Administration console but also to Administration manager. Long-time Spotfire users are accustomed to operate Administration manager and would like to be able to assign deploym...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Loading Queue Concept - Instead of harsh timeout/loading circle, users want to see progress

    One of the issues and challenges we've constantly faced with users is that they don't see any feedback from the system if the reports are loading. By just having a spinning circle without any progress indicator, the users are unaware of what is ha...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    To be able to access the last successful cache if the latest cache is failed for a report

    When there are reports which are scheduled daily for caching and whenever a cache rule is failed, we see users facing issues while accessing that report as the data would be read from the source, which is a time consuming process. Instead we wante...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    Modify error messages in notifications to hide the stack trace

    Due to security reasons, we do not want to expose the entire stack trace and application logic to users in error messages. We want to replace the error messages with non-descriptive ones, so the feature that enables modifying error messages in not...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Force "always new data vs. stored data" selection on save

    When working with Spotfire *.dxp file cooperatively, the collaboration is very often hampered by the fact, that Spotfire tends to save *.dxp files as “linked”=”Always new data” by default. That happens in particular when: Spotfire is used when st...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Collaboration / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Set Folder Permissions drop down to 'Search users/groups' as the default

    It would be great to search both users and groups as the default, instead of having to select it from the dropdown.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Customization of Line and Curves Labels

    Example: For a vertical line, in Lines and Curves (Scatter Plot), have the option to change the line label to horizontal text, compared to vertical text, to make the information easier to read. This would also give the ability to add more infor...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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