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    Calculated values or document properties in annotations

    Annotations are nice way to overlay contents on top of visualizaitons. It can also be a great way to create infographics and easier to place labels on landing pages, dashboards or reports. Add calculated values or ${labels} on annotations. Here is...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    "Refresh Schema" from Web Player

    Hello, Currently it is not possible to refresh the Schema for a data source using the web player. This would be beneficial to add as I have a lot of users who would only need the web player to view data, but the data source changes frequently so t...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Likely to implement

    Trailing Spaces in Group Name Creations

    Hello, When I Create a group name, there is no error message that stops me from creating a group if their is a leading or trailing space. When I create a user or name a dxp, this check is there so wanted to bring this up for future releases!
    6 months ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Add possibility to disable/enable transformations in data canvas

    IN data canvas, you can see all the transformation steps on the data, you can edit and delete them. In many cases, when trying things out, during development and similar, you may want to temporarily disable the step(s) and enable these later again.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 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

    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.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 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

    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...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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