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    Allow shared data tables across multiple analysis.

    Multiple analysis can be built by users that work with common data sets, or subsets of common data. This causes multiple extracts of similar data from same source. More BI tools are now leveraging in memory. This request is to enable a data set t...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 4 Future Consideration

    Default Color By Not Choosing the Same Colors

    Currently, even with a Color By of less than 20 options, by default, Spotfire will use the same color for more than one of the options. Is there a way for the default settings to not choose the same color until you reach a very large number of cat...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    TCP SOAP support

    Please expand the SOAP data source adapter to support TCP as a transport protocol. Currently, CJPs are used for TCP based SOAP connectivity, which complicates deployment, development, and usage within a TDV based environment.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Enable custom sorting of categorical scatterplot axes

    Custom sort orders can be applied to bar plot axes, however, categorical scatter plot axes are automatically sorted alphabetically with no option to apply a custom sorting order. Enable custom sorting of categorical scatter plot axes e.g. as descr...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Add driver support for datetimeoffset datatype in Spotfire

    Currently columns with datetimeoffset format are no available in information links when using MS SQL driver. Spotfire does not support the datetimeoffset datatype so any columns that have this format are "invisible" when accessing MS SQL databases...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Option to choose a more obvious "processing..." status

    While an analysis is loading additional data the only thing that is displaying it sometimes (like when using scripts etc) is a label saying "processing..." on the lower left corner of the screen. It would be nice to be able to set a more obvious l...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to Hide or Disable the Data Sources tab in Information Designer

    Information Designer users can easily see data sources that have been created by other users using the Data Sources tab in Information Designer. It is often unintentional that teams expose their data sources in this way. It enables and encourages ...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 4 Future Consideration

    When exporting to PDF or Powerpoint allow the option to repeat a visualization with each page

    There are times when one visualization is a critical reference for other visualizations in a page. It would be helpful if there was some type of option to make it so that when things are exporting that you could make it so that when items on a pag...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 2 Future Consideration

    Allow Data Entry field to take on the width of the label or characteristic name

    A data entry setup's label name should be wide enough by default to view the entire label name in the data entry view. to go in and modify width of all fields becomes very time consuming
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Data Entry Modes across top of Page should be removed

    Get rid of the "data entry modes" such as 'create new', 'view matching', 'edit', 'approve'. Should be able to do all functions within the data entry set up Each of the modes can lead to confusion
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration
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