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    More categorical colour schemes

    One of our users made the following suggestion: There are only categorical 5 colour schemes to choose from at present (of which only 2 are multicolour) - it would be great to see some more options or some kind of "Randomise" button - this would he...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Ability to fix x- and y-axis scales to the same / lock aspect ratio

    When using scatter plots, it is sometimes needed to have same scale on both x- and y-axis. So 1 unit is equal on both scales. Would make a radial plot look great all the time!
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Stop making spotfire the active window when it finishes booting. It should only interupt when there is an issue like a missing file.

    Is bad enough that it takes for ever to start, that I have time to continue working on something else and then half an hour latter I get interrupted by Spotfire like if taking so long to start deserved my immediate attention. Sick of it
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire 2 Future Consideration

    Wrapping Long Headers for table columns. Wraping text without spaces in column headers

    Is there a way to wrap long text which has no spaces inside as headers for Table columns, so they are legible without making the column very wide?. Properties - Appearance setting that specify several lines for headers do not work probably because...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 6 Already exists

    Business Author : Date like DD/MM/YYYY are load as STRING instead of DATE

    Our users are working with Business Author. French date format are usually like : DD/MM/YYYY. But Spotfire does not recognize it ! As transform it as STRING It's a HUGE bug for us !
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    reset browser after analysis is close on Analyst

    Currently if one defines a global variable using JavaScript in Text area, the global variable remains there even after analysis is closed. The same applies if global timer is defined, it won't stop running until Analyst is close. As per support, t...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Will not implement

    Python Data Function - Add Row Number

    Display row numbers for Python scripts in the Edit Script workspace. This is present in R data functions but I don't see it when writing a Python function. This is useful for debugging code with the referenced line numbers.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Add maximize button for all visuals

    The maximize button doesn't appear for JSViz visuals, nor for any visual that has no title bar. It's possible to maximize visuals by maximizing another one and then cycling through (as long as at least one visual on the page has the button). It wo...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Purge idle session

    TDV doesn't have any functionality to purge idle sessions which remain in the memory,so introduction of any such functionality to remove idle sessions automatically would be great rather than manually purging it.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Future Consideration

    Inclusion of more regular expressions in TDV just like it is present in Oracle

    There are several queries where we need regular expressions like REGEXP_LIKE ,some of the regular expressions are not supported so it would be nice if those can be inlcudes
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / sql support 0 Future Consideration
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