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    Ability to rotate a map

    We would like to be able to rotate an entire map visualization, to where North / South could be any direction.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Export/Import Symbol Sets

    It would be very useful in a large scale environment to be able to import/export custom symbol sets. For example, I have created a symbol set on my local machine named "SI Engineering" with the range of values from 1000^-8 to 1000^8 and would now ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Support multiple geometry fields in a data table

    Currently Spotfire is limited to only supporting a single geometry field within data table. We are storing multiple aspects of a well's geometry within our data source (1 row per well) and would like the option to choose which geometry should be r...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    We need CustomValueRenderer support for SVG rendering.

    I'm developer from PerkinElmer. We want some new feature for Spotfire. We are using a CustomValueRenderer to render chemical expression, but it will re-render every time if I change the row height, it will waste a lot of server performance, more ...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Variable Width on Bar Chart

    Would like to use the width of the bar in the Bar Chart plot to show the relative frequency or value range of the items in Category Axis. Or the sum of Sales as the height of the bar and the number of units sold as the width of the bar.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 8 Future Consideration

    add option in UI to change cross table default column width equal to using the API: CrossTablePlot.CellWidth.(reference)

    Customer wants to have an UI option to manually enter the value, due to dragging column header by pressing ctrl key can not adjust the width by pixel perfect, it's hard to set same value for two cross tables. API: CrossTablePlot.CellWidth.(reference)
    5 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    calling an custom Export Tool from Iron Python

    te Excecute methot within the CustomTool API is not valid for an customExportTool (even if this inherits it). therefore there is no public method to be called from IronPython in order to trigger a custom export from a button for example. Furthermo...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to "publish" a version of an analysis file for others, and continue to modify it for myself

    I would like to be able to publish a version of an analysis file for my colleagues, so they can view it. but at the same time I want to continue developing the analysis file with the next improvement without having my colleagues see the intermedia...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration

    monitoring Python Service node performance

    Please add functionality to monitoring Python Service node performance. e.g. (1) write cpu/memory/etc usage to log files under nm/logs folder. (2) write cpu/memory/etc usage to user action log.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Deploy only cache tables that are dependents of selected services instead of all tables in the cache database

    Currently when deploying objects and selecting dependencies cache databases are treated differently than other data sources. With standard data sources only tables in the lineage of the selected objects are included in the car file. For caching, e...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Future Consideration
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