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    Customisable Lines / Symbols on Bump Chart Mod

    The Bump Chart mod in Spotfire is a great way of showing rankings over time, but at the moment it is only possible to display coloured lines and circles to show the rankings. I'd ideally like to be able to change both the size and shape of the ran...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Read/Access the KPI Chart values using Ironpython?

    The KPI chart allows you to compute calculations like that of other visualizations. It would be nice to be able to extract those calculated values using IronPython like it is possible in a Cross Table. This would defeat the purpose of using the KP...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Add control of for the correct use of http status codes

    Follow W3C standards for http status codes. For instance if a published REST service doesn't receive a required input parameter, TDV currently returns a status code of 500, which is incorrect - it should return 412 or 422. The inability to send t...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 Future Consideration

    Community Expression in Product

    Let's allow expression functions to be contributed by the community. Allow pluggable expression code; Python or IronPython or Spotfire expression syntax; Needs new API
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Reduction of Rendering Artifacts for Map Chart

    Further reduction of rendering artifacts (some layers work better with setting “5", some better with “6” but a) sometimes none of the two is perfect and b) this should be full-auto and not another setting the user has to make. Submitted on behalf ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    API Documentation Improvement

    So few examples; difficult for a new user to know which properties/methods are useful as there are many that are not. Triggers, events, custom nodes, property names all very difficult to understand. Community examples need more work
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Question API capability

    For bots and Alexa and similar. Ask questions of a DXP - web service API for querying data engine
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Improve Lag/Lead Functions

    Now implemented but documentation doesn't specify how the ordering of rows is important; in addition, the ordering of rows is not guaranteed, so the functions are not trustworthy at present
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    "Clean" axis names when aggregations / expressions used

    Don't wrap columns in aggregations when displaying on axis. Instead use "Sum of .." or "Average of ..." etc
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Customization for Copying Visualization Image

    include/exclude title, legend, custom css when copying visualization image
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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