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    Provide API to retrieve information link details (SQL)

    Major data lineage tools (Informatica, ERwin) support scanning all BI tools such QlikView, Tableau, SAP, Cognos, but do not support Spotfire!! the stated reason from multiple vendor is Spotfire does not provide API to retrieve information link det...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Option to display guidelines that track horizontally and vertically across visualisation charts

    Could we have "on hover" guidelines that track a mouse movement over a chart and help the user to orientate his or herself against the X and Y axes' values? This is particularly for scatter charts. It would be great if we could also display the ex...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Hide markers on Scatter Chart

    Add the option to hide markers on scatter graph and only show the line connectors. Currently, markers can only be displayed in the background, made very small and have relatively innocuous shapes assigned to them but this creates an untidy appeara...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Routing to multiple web player nodes

    In our production environment we have multiple web player nodes each with two instances. We have a number of critical reports that we run as a scheduled update where we select 2 in the 'number of instances' dropdown. The issue with default routing...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 2 Future Consideration

    Descriptive naming of operations in transformations in data canvas

    When working with the data canvas, it can be difficult to see details of the operations have been performed on the data. For example, every calculated column is listed as "Calculate new column". If there are lots of calculated column, each one mus...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Get the "Display Name" of expressions set from Property Control

    When using a Property Control based on a drop-down selection, where the "Set property value through" = Expressions, there is no way currently to get the "Display Name" values. These values can be re-used in Custom Expressions for example. Thank yo...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Forest Plots in Spotfire

    It will be nice to have options to analyze the trial data to create "Odds Ratio" and using the OR or RR the Forest Plots in Spotfire.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Copy & Paste

    We'd like to be able to copy and paste more easily in the Web client, the user version of spotfire. At present, we need to right-click and select "Copy cell value" to copy the value from a table. We'd like to have a simpler way of copying and past...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Spatial Data with ST_GEOMTERY data type

    It will allow to load the Spatial data from Oracle with ST_GEOMETRY data type top build Map chart with shapes.
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Adding more then 3 columns in y-axis/x axis should show all column name by default.

    In bar chart when more then 3 columns are selected then display name get clubbed into a single string like "4 columns" in y-axis. Customer want that by default all the column name should be visible. If space is an issue then at least a final displ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration
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