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Ability to stretch long text from a data table, cross table or calculated value to multiple pages in a prepared report

When long text such as 5K characters or more are displayed in Spotfire using table, cross table or calculated values, there is no feature i have seen in Spotfire X that forces the remaining text to a new page in a PDF export or prepared report. Th...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Export Future Consideration

Add ability to set background color of a georeferenced image to no color

With georeferenced images, many times you get a large black border around the image as a result of georectifiication. This is a result of the "background" of the image being displayed as black. In ArcGIS you can set this background as no color. It...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Maps Future Consideration

Column Sort

Hello, On each column, I can set the order to be natural order, alphabetical and custom. I need a way to change this behaviour by a button (script).
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting Future Consideration

Include information link descriptions in the Find tool search

The new Find tool in Spotfire 10 searches the contents of the open DXP file, library information link and DXP titles, DXP keywords applied when saving and probably some other stuff that I am not aware of. It does NOT search thru the description of...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Same message using Image from URL in the table visualization and the cross table

Customer want to display same message. Customer uses the table visualization and the cross table visualization. Customer displays column from Image from URL(Renderer).some urls are exist and some urls are not exist. table visualization's message　-...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

One shared server connector cache

In cases of multiple web servers, a data connection can't be cached between web servers. Information links appear to allow caching for all users.
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Connector drivers should only need to be installed once in a Spotfire topology

Today each driver needs to be manually deployed on each web node server.
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Sort Stacked Bar Chart Legend to Align with Chart Segments

When you have a single vertical stacked bar in a bar chart, sorted by size, it would be good if it was possible to sort the legend in the same order as the bar chart segments. It can be difficult to associate the bar segment with the different col...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

get the list of columns provided by an information link

in C#, when using and informationlinkdescriptor or informationlinkdatasource, it would be nice to know the list of columns provided by the informationLink. this can be usefull to identify the columns to ignore, the colums used for mapping (in the ...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Scrape tables from webpages

Create a new Data Source type for "Website" that will scrape data from within any tables. I believe this should be fairly simple by parsing the html <table> tags.
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration
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