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    More detail in WebPlayer error messages

    As an administrator of Spotfire I would like to enable error messages for Web Player end-users to be more informative or descriptive. Example many times when the chain of permissions in library is not complete we get screenshots depicting an issue...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Improved Label Placement in Charts

    Currently there are situations where the auto-placement of the labels in a chart is not intuitive. If possible, a large improvement for this would be to compare the values and position the labels according to the values. For instance, if there are...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Export Visualization

    We have lot of text areas and multiple visuals on one page and if we use Active page option which is by default then texts areas, some legends are not being exported correctly and hence users are not happy with this export. As a workaround , I sug...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Export 1 Future Consideration

    Add functionality to read XML body from files in File - XML datasource

    We have multiple collections of XML files that are all of the same XML schema. These files are accesed through the File - XML datasource. Currently, processing XML files from this source requires that a transformation is defined on each file. That...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Unlikely to implement

    The ability to lock column width on Cross Table Headers

    Currently, if the labels in a Cross Table change with the data then the header width isn't locked and as new data comes it looks terrible. There should be some sort of ability to lock the header width to a fixed size that doesn't change.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Force server reconnect

    It would be nice if there was a way to force the TS Client to do a server reconnect (when the TSS has been restarted) - today you have to wait until the client tries to connect as it does every X seconds. There is an Online/Offline indicator in th...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to hide empty levels in treemap hierarchies

    The new Treemap vis shows empty levels as "Level n", when in the hierarchy there is an entry on a level below.I would suggest, that the user can chose, whether to see these empty levels, or not.The Cross Table shows the same behaviour.I would like...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    DataFunction support for external data (in-db)

    The current DataFunction paradigm only allows for sending data from and to the Spotfire in-memory data engine. For a Spotfire user, a Spotfire data table is a Spotfire data table, whether it is external or not. For data science and analysis applic...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    To have an opportunity to control size of the DXP files which are stored into the Spotfire Libraries.

    Users are saving big files into the Spotfire Librsries which lead to the performance problems on Web Player. It would be great to have settings which allow to control size of files (DXP or SBDF) to store. It allows to reduce load on servers and da...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Enable Statistica to use SecureLDAP synchronization

    Statistica Enterprise is able to use LDAP synchronization. Customers want to use SecureLDAP soon, so this must be possible.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 To be Reviewed
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