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Status Future Consideration
Product Spotfire
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Created by Guest
Created on Jan 23, 2020

Document property: slider controls need formatting options

While building an analysis tool for my company I came across the need to use a number of document properties as inputs. In an effort to put some bounds on what the users could enter I decided to make these document properties as sliders, so I could set an upper and lower range. However, after putting several of these sliders into a text area, I began to notice the formatting for all of my numeric ones was two decimals; and I think it looks crappy that way. Especially since I'm not allowing the user to enter things at increments of less than 1 (in most cases). Then I also have a few inputs which are percentages, and there is no option to format the slider to show them in percent, just the same two decimal places as all of the other numeric properties. Almost everywhere else in Spotfire there are options for formatting how things are displayed, so I feel like this one must have gotten overlooked. Please look into it. I know if it catches my eye, it's gonna catch my CEO's eye.

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    • Guest
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      Dec 31, 2024

      The number of decimals follows the format settings of the OS, and it defaults to 2.

      One of our customers uses 0.001~0.099 in the slider and also wants a OOTB feature to configure the formatting options of slider controls.


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      Niklas Amberntsson
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      Jan 24, 2020

      Hi Jonathan, thanks for contributing. For the cases where you only allow changing the values with increments of 1, would it work to tie the control to an integer type document property? In that case there are no decimals displayed.