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    Scroll page instead of zooming visualizations with zoom sliders

    It would be beneficial to have a similar functionality as the Map chart properties > appearance > Scroll page instead of zooming map for visualizations that have the zoom sliders on. Here is a work around
    6 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Enhancement to create custom tool API

    Custom tool API allows us to specify the tool name/license/menu category/icon ... These custom menus automatically show up in the 'customize toolbar ...' area. We have a large number of such custom tools that we would like to hide from 'Customize ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

    Text Area dimensions: Reduce the minimum height of the Text Area. Also, have option to remove scroll bar from text area.

    Attached image shows a drop-down property control with font size = 10. There is too much padding between the property control and the bottom border of the text area. Please allow for the minimum height of the Text Area to be half of what it is now...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Android app should support Kerberos SSO

    Unlike the ios app, the Android app does not support SSO (as configured via the sso url in the Spotfire settings). As a result only our ios users can utilize the app
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Mobile 4 Future Consideration

    Allow customization of the CREATE TABLE DDL for cache creation

    Allow a developer to customize the CREATE TABLE DDL when creating cache tables so that specific clauses for logging, distributed by, tpartitioning or storage parameters can be added to the CREATE statement. This could be handed edited by the devel...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Future Consideration

    The ability to reference C# dll from iron python on web player

    It is very helpful to be able to access C# dll's from Iron python on web player , For now it is only supported on Spotfire installed client and not web player without manually adding the dll to the Node Manager instance modules, which is not conve...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Determine column types using type information in data set rather than data values

    Spotfire infers column types by examining the values in (the first 1000) rows of the data set being loaded. This generally works well but makes mistakes often enough that manual correction becomes laborious. A case in point is when real-valued dat...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Standard configuration UI for visualization mod custom properties

    A Visualization Mod typically comes with a number of settings with which users can configure the appearance or behavior of the Mod. These settings can be either axis selectors or properties. Axes selectors are automatically displayed in visualizat...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Modify the thickness of gridlines

    No description provided
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Event Based Scheduling (Trigger from a file or schedule)

    Other BI tools that we use have the concept of event based scheduling. So in addition to a schedule firing at a given time/day and frequency the schedule only fires if a designated trigger file can be found or another schedule that this schedule i...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 4 Future Consideration
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