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In many scenarios we need to highlight some areas in a scatter plot with rectangles/boxes ... today there is no way to do so. The only workaround that I found is to use horizontal and vertical lines to define an area of interest. But this does not have the same visual effect as having colored boxes. A typical use case is to define a box that represents limits of x and y columns in scatter. So all points failing in that box are within limits and everything else is outside limits. It would be great to be able to support multiple boxes with different colors.
Fully agree, Samer. Actually I believe that the choice of visualisations in Spotfire should be equivalent to those found in ggplot2 (that is a Grammar of Graphics btw). Right now my workaround is to use a mapchart with None geo-projections and to draw polygons as shapefiles using a TERR conversion function found at https://community.tibco.com/questions/everyone-im-trying-create-shaded-polygon-shape-lat-long-coordinates-are-stored-excel-not