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    allow hidden item in axis

    Many customers asked to set sort order on an axis by defined orders. For example for string column, a custom sort order can be specified on it and changes sort order arbitrarily, however if there are too many unique values custom sort oder can not...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Load KMZ file

    It will be useful if spotfire be able to load Kmz extension file. It's another kind of georeference file, like a Shape file.This kind of file is used in Google Earth.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Shift transformations in data canvas

    When analysing data, sometimes many transformations are needed. When using add columns, you may realize that the transformation shouldn't have been done on the original table, but at the very end of the result data table, or vice versa. Then you h...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Better integration and usability features for Admin Tools

    The Analyst client, Information Designer, and Administration Tools should be better integrated. There needs to be more productivity featured added. Here are some examples of features that would make authoring and troubleshooting much easier and le...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Store Library Path of a DXP file once saved first onto the library

    Having the possibility to specify where a DXP is saved onto the library would avoid the dozens of clicking when saving the same DXP later on. In my organization we have at least 6-7 layers of folders before reaching the relevant one for my departm...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    API for Spotfire Connectors

    We need the Spotfire C# API to give access to the details of the Spotfire connectors. We need to be able to read, update and save the detail information including the connection information, credentials, query.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add EOMONTH (end of month) calculation function

    EOMONTH() is a common Excel function because in many cases, users (all Oil & Gas industry) need to compute information based off the end of the month. Currently a typical user will not know how to compute the End of the Month using formulas be...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Support optional prompts in data connections

    Information links allow for both optional and mandatory prompts but data connections seem to only support mandatory ones. This means you cannot have a data connection which serves multiple uses cases where one user would like to filter data by a d...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement

    Vertical Scatter Plot - Rotate X and Y Axis / Choose Independent Variable Axis

    Allow the option of scatter plots having the independent variable on the Y axis instead of only the X axis. This can either be done by rotating the plot 90 degrees or choosing which axis to have the independent and dependent variables. The specifi...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire 2 Future Consideration

    bring back the "reload with prompt" button in spotfire X

    please bring back the "reload with promped" button for linked data tables in the data table properties of spotfire X like it was implemented in Spotfire 7.xx. This option should only be available for linked data tables. It would be good to have a ...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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