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Status Future Consideration
Product Spotfire
Categories Export
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 7, 2019
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit TS-I-6611 When exporting to PDF or Powerpoint allow the option to repeat a visualization with each page.

Need a way to print large crosstables to PDF in a manner very similar to printing from Excel or other spreadsheets Merged

As datasets are quickly exceeding the capabilities of Microsoft Excel, we are gladly migrating to, and creating much of our new reporting in TIBCO Spotfire.  The crosstable makes creating tabular reports feasible, but many of the reports have more rows than will fit on the screen.  In this situation, the functionality currently available for printing to PDF format is not sufficient.  We need the ability to set one or more visualizations (like a text box at the top of the page) and/or crosstable headers, to repeat at the top of every page.   In conjunction with this, Spotfire also needs the ability to paginate through the crosstable, rather than attempting to simply scale down all of the contents of the crosstable, which could be hundreds of rows, onto a single page.  We must now consider recreating some of our Spotfire crosstables in a spreadsheet platform so they may be printed to PDF in their entirety.

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    Niklas Amberntsson
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    Oct 8, 2019

    Hello Brian, many thanks for contributing your idea. I assume you know about Spotfire's ability to paginate through a cross table when exporting, but that you need to provide som additional information on each page?

    Would it be possible for you to attach some sort of screenshot/mockup to illustrate the kind of information you need to display? It is actually possible (but not obvious how) to provide some contextual information in combination with paginating exports.