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    Being able to sync scale ranges between visuals

    This is a request from our Spotfire customer. In the sample screenshot, users linked the filter bar values to the range of x-axis values, so the left screenshot shows the x-axis from 1 to 10 corresponding to 1-10 values of the filter bar, and data...
    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

    Add Aliasing of Database names

    Although most people know it's bad practice to have different database names between Development, UAT, and production, the reality is that most of us have had to deal with this at some point or other. Thus even though your Datasource has the same ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 To be Reviewed

    Easy way to inventory licenses for multiple servers

    This idea is requested by a current Spotfire customer. Multiple servers make it difficult to inventory licenses. Currently, each server goes in and exports license files, collects them, and aggregates them. Hope this can be improved.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Needs Info

    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

    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

    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

    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
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