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    Label Bar Chart by category Names

    Instead of just showing the value of the bar also be able to show the category name so you don't have to hover over the bar.
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Sorting for waterfall plot

    The new waterfall plot only allows a sorting within the categories of the Category Axis. However it is lacking a functionality to sort the values based on the Value Axis which actually would make it "waterfall"-like. Could this please be added? Ot...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 7 Future Consideration

    add command to list imported intermediate certificates

    We can import/delete intermediate certificates to/from spotfire server but there is no way to list the imported ones. These intermediate certificates are used for validate a signer. To delete it we must specify the certificate's issuer and serial ...
    3 months ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Add transformations to external data tables (and database pushback of these)

    Spotfire lacks one very important feature to make data preparation more useful: basic operations on external tables. Other tools offer this in terms of joins, filters for row and columns, simple calculations, aggregation and similar. All these ope...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    read the auto scale function through the API

    The ScaleAxisBase.Range currently returns a null value if auto scale is on. I would like to read the auto scale function so i can give multiple graphs the same scale. This especially handy for data where you can not up front deterimene the scale o...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Add Sorting to the Visualization Properties Panel

    I can now sort a table by more than 3 columns from the column header, but where can I see the sequence of the columns? The first "Sort by" is clear from the UI, and then all others are "Then by" with a small plus sign, but where is the sequence? T...
    3 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Customize Data Connectors

    The ability to add JDBC connections exists but the DB DATA connectors is limited to a finite list. The need exists to be able to add additional data connectors to anything that you can configure and ODBC connection for. Adding data table does not ...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to search inside data sources in information designer

    I'm often working on information links. To add columns in joins, column elements, filters etc. I always have to scroll through the tables in the data source, open them, add the columns... This is time consuming and annoying work. My suggestion is ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Add an apply changes button to Custom Expression dialogue box

    I do a lot of cross tables and other visualizations with lots of 'Columns' that are custom expressions, and often I have to go through them and make changes to one or more than one of the expressions. It would be really helpful to have a button in...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / User Experience 1 Future Consideration

    Automation Services Database Logging

    We need to be able to report on Automation Services job failures as this functionality is not present in Automation Services (ie: job failure notification via e-mail when failure occurs). 1.) The JOB_INSTANCES table is purging rows after approxima...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration
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