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Status Implemented
Product Spotfire
Categories Visualization
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 22, 2016
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit SPF-I-5227 Changing the data table of a visualization should keep the identical visualization when the same variables are present in the new data table selected..

Keep plot configuration when switching data tables Merged

Often I will have two nearly identical data tables within the same Spotfire file, e.g. two different budget forecasts.  I will have created a visualization against one of the data tables and then I want to copy that visualization and merely change the data table being visualized.  When I do this, all the configuration of the visualization, i.e. columns, coloring, data slicing, is all lost and I have to rebuild the visualization from scratch even though the data in the new data table is identical to that from which I have switched.

I would suggest that when switching data tables within a visualization that Spotfire first check to see if column names match and to apply all the visualization set-up to that new data table prior to "re-setting" the visualization.  I feel like this happens when dragging a visualization from one DXP file to another and that a similar "behind-the-scenes" check could be made which changing the data table.

Implemented in 7.11