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    Mark all visible rows instead of all filtered rows

    Using Ctrl-A, you can mark all filtered rows in a visualization. However, when there’s additional Data Limiting, this marks more rows than what is actually visible which I find rather unintuitive. Of course you can use the mouse to drag a rectangl...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Connector to Elasticsearch

    Hello, Is a connector to ElasticStack planned in TIBCO Spotfire roadmap? To my mind, it could be interesting to connect Spotfire to Elastic. Thanks in advance. Best regards.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration

    Diagonal Axis labels

    Axis labels can only be horizontal or vertical. One better way to manage long axis labels is to have them diagonal as this would be best utilization of space and is more readable. This is already available in many other softwares.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    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.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    add API to get the data type of a document property in action mod

    We want to get the data type of a document property, e.g. for (const p of document.Properties) { // get the data type of p here } const p = document.Properties.Get("my-property-name"); // or get the data type of p here The name of the property is ...
    3 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 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...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 7 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 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

    Alignment and Customization of Y-axis Spacing

    The customer would like the option to automatically synchronize the Y-axis scale spacing between stacked (upper and lower) graphs. Additionally, they are requesting a UI option to manually specify this spacing to ensure a consistent and profession...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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