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Status Future Consideration
Product Spotfire
Categories Visualization
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 29, 2026

Allow labelling by multiple columns

At the moment a data point in a Spotfire visualisation can only be labelled by a single column, so when working with chemical data you are limited to either a Structure OR an Identifier.

A tooltip allows multiple columns, so can hover over a point and see multiple column data.

Would be great to be able to label rows with two (or more?) columns to allow visualising a structure and identifier for marked rows.

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    Arnaud Varin
    Feb 9, 2026

    Thanks for this idea.

    While the current UI allows selecting only a single column as a label, it is already possible to display multiple values in labels by using a custom label expression. Labels are expression-based, which means multiple columns can be combined and formatted using for instance multi-line labels.

    For example, a label expression like:

    "ID: " & [Compound_ID] & "\nStructure: " & [Structure]

    allows displaying both an identifier and a structure (or any other combination of columns) directly as label.

    That said, I understand that you request is really about making this capability accessible directly from the UI, without requiring users to write expressions. For that reason, I've set the status of this idea to future consideration as it makes sense as part of our roadmap.

    I'm attaching a screnhot showing an example of a multi-line label built using an expression.