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    Continuous Error Bands

    The idea is an error band instead of error bars for continuous data in a line graph like in plotly: "Continuous error bands are a graphical representation of error or uncertainty as a shaded region around a main trace, rather than as discrete whis...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Insert custom expression into title of visual

    At the moment, it is possible to insert Dynamic Item with Calculated value into Text area. In this way you can visualize the value of arbitrary custom expression in text area. I am suggesting to have same dynamic option in the graph tittle. Usecas...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Hide stats table headers when using (vertical) category axis labels in box plots

    There is a new feature allowing to have vertical labels in box plots but when combined with showing a stats table there is no way of getting rid off the horizontally oriented stats table headers. Not only is this duplicated information consuming p...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    We want to open another dxp using IronPython

    This idea is requested by a Spotfire customer. Users want to start another dxp, but they can't access the URL from IronPython. Currently, this is achieved by writing dxp links in the html area.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    Clear retained data when exiting (closing) the screen

    Customer requested for this idea. There is no event handler for closing DXP. For example, if users want to initialize the system immediately after startup, they can add flexible functionality by embedding python codes in a process called Init (eve...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Be able to perform on-the-fly datum transformations when adding map layers with different CRS

    By default, Spotfire works in WGS84 (World Mercator). A lot of data exists in different datums and projections but Spotfire has no capacity to be able to simultaneously apply datum transformations so that the layers spatially align. This is a seri...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    API to read Min and Max values for Y-axis when values are not set

    Referring to https://community.tibco.com/wiki/how-read-and-set-values-axis-range-multiple-scales-mode-tibco-spotfire-using-ironpython it is not possible to fetch the values if the Min and Max fields are empty / displaying the grayed out text 'Auto...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    Non-adjacent multiple selection on a mobile touch device

    Context: working from a mobile device. This option would help to perform multiple selection, as there's no CTRL button to press..The workaround of the usage of lasso selection works with some visualizations (for example barchart) but not with othe...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Mobile 0 Future Consideration

    Add a file adapter to connect to JSON files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to JSON files to read in data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 2 Future Consideration

    restrict the use of Spotfire to only those who have a license

    The customer would like to restrict the use of Spotfire to only those who have a license, for example by entering a license key at the time of installation. License here refers to Consumer/BusinessAuthor/Analyst license. Currently, If a Spotfire a...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire 3 Future Consideration
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