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    Funnel Chart

    A funnel chart is a specialized chart type that demonstrates the flow of things (e.g. users, components, tasks, customers etc.) through a business process.
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Auto-scale labels by Bar width

    Axis and bar labels do not fit if they are too many bars, do not fit on the bars if label font is too big, and are tiny on the axis if there are only a few bars. It is quite tricky to find the optimal sizing between these constraints, for charts t...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Marking that splits/combines aggregated data

    Imagine you have several US States on a map showing sales over time. On separate line chart, you want to represent this, but it's 1) too cluttered if you include all 50 states, or 2) completely aggregated if you aggregate all 50 lines. It would be...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Switch visualization type

    If there are three visuals on a page we should have the ability to bring one visualization in from another page and then Switch between
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Cross table aggregations

    Version 7.11 has better aggregations but work still needed in this area - e.g. custom expressions for aggregation
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Add Run Button to GUI

    Add run script button to any GUI where appropriate. For instance, when I am writing IronPython I often just want to run the script with a new parameter setting to see if it works. At the moment I have to edit the script before I run it, so it woul...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Custom expression function to format data(numeric/datetime,etc) like String.Format([column], "c# format string")

    It's good to have custom expression function to format data like String.Format([column], "c# format string") in custom expression or calculated column. Thanks.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Change behaviour of links to files in text areas

    Summary: If you place a link to a file that is not accessible for the web player service in a text area, the whole text area can take very long to render. This should be changed so that the text area renders instantly (but the link does not work)....
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    Alternate between Scroll for large tabular visualisations and a "Paging" option

    At the moment, the only option we have for tabular visualisations is to scroll through them. It would be great if we could add an alternative UI for the tabular visualisations such as a "page" option (Previous, Next, page 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 etc.). User...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    API to register a data function

    An API to register a data function would make it possible to have a custom extension dynamically add a data function to the analysis document. Similar to how you can import a .data function (from a -sdf file) in the Register Data Functions dialog.
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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