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    Reliable distro files naming convention

    We had invested a lot of effort into building automations that would allow upgrade Spotfire quickly. Every such upgrade process starts with new distro files as inputs. But for some reason, distro filename convention keeps changing and it breaks o...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Network Chart Mod: arrowheads and dendrograms

    In your next update, please allow for directional or bidirectional arrowheads to be included in network charts. This will up the ante in displaying directional graphs. Another useful feature would be to allow the display of networks into dendrogra...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Support database connections to Filemaker.

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    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Avoid duplicate labels after formatting numerical axes

    Reformatting a numeric axis by reducing the number of decimals can lead to duplicate (and incorrect) axis labels. Should we consider dropping the duplicate axis labels that are misleading? One could manually reduce the number of labels in the visu...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Support extremely wide data sets

    Spotfire is excellent when working with wide datasets that can contain thousands or even tens of thousands of columns. In some situations, datasets can be extremely wide with millions of columns, which sometimes causes performance and UX issues. I...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Addition of a bookmark admin license, to help remove unused public bookmarks without the need to be a real administrator.

    *Enhancement request:*Currently the users can delete their own public bookmarks, and no one else.This is good and how the customer also wants things to work.However; to administer bookmarks, you need to be an admin within Spotfire to delete other ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Not equal to should evaluate to true if value is null

    User is stating that IF statements do not handle nulls as expected in calculated columns, or in limit data by expressions on a visualisation. Here is an example: 3 rows of data: ID Value1 Complete2 3 Not Complete Where in ID 2 , the value for the ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    Dock the Legend in WebPlayer

    In version 6.x, users can dock the Legend icon in the visualization tile bar and with 7.0, the option of auto-hide feature of legend doesn't let the users to dock it. They would need an option to choose between these two options.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Change the title dynamically of the 2nd chart(Detail Visualization) if the selection is made on the 1st chart

    I have A upper bar chart - 'HomeRuns count by Team' and a Below chart - 'HomeRuns count by Position'. I want that when he made a selection in the upper chart(Click on the Bar) then the associated category value(X-axis). Should display in the title...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Let custom visualizations control text in status bar

    {noformat}Add an API to make it possible for a developer of a custom visualization to be able to control the text in the status bar.For example in a map chart the text could read "Region Texas marked" instead of the standard text. {noformat}
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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