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    Copy Text Area Visualizations

    Need to add the ability to right-click and "Copy Visualization" for Text Areas, just like you can for all other visualization types. Right now, if you'd like to re-use a text area (e.g. a custom filter section or title block), you have to right cl...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Customization of Labels and Zooming on Maps

    Map Labels - If the user wants to place labels above data points on a map, sometimes the locations Spotfire chooses end up covering other data points or making the map look too busy. It would be ideal to allow the user to click and drag on the lab...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Debugger for IronPython

    It would be very helpful if there was a debugger for IronPython scripts. Otherwise you always have to tediously set print statements
    10 months ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    User permission controls for viewing/editing Automation Services schedules

    Currently in Spotfire X, adding a user to the "Automation Services Users group" so that they have the ability to manage automation job schedules gives them the ability to edit all schedules. We want to allow users to self-manage schedules but givi...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Add "Column Property" to the menu when clicking on the column name

    This would avoid multiple clicks, and other keyboard inputs to reach the column properties dialog (located under the Data menu). This would be mainly for Table visualizations, but could also be beneficial in other visualizations. See screenshot fr...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Extend the horizontal or vertical line when resizing visualizations

    In Spotfire Analyst 10.3, when changing the size of the visualization frame, the line displayed stops at the visualization borders. It would be great to extend it, so that it could be aligned with visualizations which are not right beside the visu...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Vertical lines with categorical x-axis

    I am creating financial charts, and would like to add vertical lines at certain dates. This is only available if the x-axis is set to 'Continuous', but my financial data does not contain data for weekends/holidays, and setting to 'Continuous' fill...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    add text input to mod popout components

    Please add text input to mod popout components so we can specify any value with it.
    5 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Choose which columns get grand totals in cross-table

    We have a cross table where some columns (e.g. sales total) benefit from a grand total, whereas others (e.g. the sales rank of a product against other products) do not. We would like to have the option to choose whether a column gets a total. Ad...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Public Web Service to check status Scheduled Updates (external updates)

    We make use of the public web service UpdateAnalysisService to trigger scheduled updates externally after a data refresh. Sometimes the scheduled updates fail. The only way to check this, is to manually log on at the Spotfire Server, go to the Sch...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 2 Future Consideration
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