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    Expand the color by list

    When you are coloring by (or shaping etc) more than 20 or so different items, there is a very frustrating (...) at the bottom of the list which can't be expanded
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Already exists

    do not run TERR/Python service inside a container by default if Node Manager is already running inside a container

    TERR/Python service on Linux is by default running inside a container which means if docker is not installed then the instance can't start. This is true even when deploying Node Manager inside a container, in this case TERR doesn't have to run ins...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 6 Future Consideration

    Download Containers for Script

    Problem Statement There have been many situations where Developers were asked to generate some kind of file dynamically(Formatted Excel, PDF from Data Function, Images generated from scripts, Word Reports etc.). Mostly it is easy to do so, but pro...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    add option to turn off automatic column categorization (NUMBERS, CATEGORIES)

    When loading csv file into Analyst, some columns are categorized as "CATEGORIES" automatically even its data type is numeric (Integer, Real, etc.). As far as I know, these columns all have names ending with "mode" or "type", etc. Generally, if col...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Display more than 3 Column Selectors on an axis in Web version

    As a user of a Cross Table (and other visualizations that make use of Column Selectors) I would like to use 3 hierarchy columns and their sliders, plus one standard column rendered as an image from a URL. When I add the fourth column to the Cross ...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Allow transformations for external (in-db) data tables

    One should have the possibility to define transformations on data canvas for external (in-db) tables. Also a possibility to review the data should be possible.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Streams 0 Future Consideration

    Do not automatically generate cluster columns after dendrogram clustering in heat map

    I find it a bit annoying that cluster membership columns are automatically generated if I calculate dendrograms in a heatmap. I do this in order to group the rows/columns, not to calculate clusters. There should be an option to inactivate the colu...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Notify users background processes are running

    I have a DXP with several on demand queries. These queries are attached to marking and property controls. When the queries are executed, they take a while to run. I am having problems with users not realizing that queries are running, so they try ...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Rename multiple columns should be more efficient

    Only a single column can be-named in each column renaming step. This should be possible for several columns in the same way one can change the column type for columns with a single transformation.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Streams 0 Future Consideration

    Show progress bar when opening a dashboard

    For dashboards where a large volume of data is loaded, it would be helpful if the user could see a progress bar and an estimate of time remaining.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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