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Provide option to bypass the public CRAN_mirrors URLs in the TERR Tools package management tab

Provide an option for a Spotfire Administrator to point the Spotfire Analyst desktop client's "Tools > TERR Tools > Package Management" dialog tab to the URL of a custom R package repository. This option would bypass the dialog's "CRAN packa...
3 days ago in Spotfire / Data Functions To be Reviewed

Support Access to Multiple Python Environments / Repositories

Enable Spotfire to connect to and utilize more than one Python environment (Python Service / repository) within a single deployment. Currently, Spotfire supports configuration of only a single Python environment. This limitation restricts scenario...
4 months ago in Spotfire / Data Functions Future Consideration
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Synchronous Data Function Execution

Control order DF’s execute i.e. ability to ‘chain’ data functions in a sequence
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions Future Consideration

Web player support for data function properties

The web player experience does not currently support the configuration of data function properties. This would be a helpful feature, especially for non-Windows users.
about 1 month ago in Spotfire / Data Functions To be Reviewed

Data Functions IDE / Integration

Writing and debugging data functions is currently difficult. If we could have a better IDE for writing data functions in, or even the ability to write functions in Visual Studio Code and integrate this with Spotfire somehow would be very helpful.
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions Future Consideration

memory limit on each engine process in TERR / Python / R service

Customer would like to have the ability to set memory limit on each engine process in TERR / Python / R service, in order to avoid each engine process from consuming all memory and block other engine process from running. We know there is a servic...
3 months ago in Spotfire / Data Functions Future Consideration

Provide a point-and-click way for authorized users to export all TERR, R or Python scripts from the data functions in a Spotfire analysis, Spotfire library, or library folder to files that can be imported into an external IDE (such as RStudio).

Provide a point-and-click way for authorized users to export all TERR, R or Python scripts from the data functions in a selected Spotfire analysis, Spotfire library, or library folder to files that can each be imported into an external IDE (such a...
3 months ago in Spotfire / Data Functions Future Consideration

Don't execute data functions when required input data is empty

Many data functions you want triggered from markings. However, when nothing is marked, empty inputs are sent to the DF which causes errors. So you have to create specific error handling code for TERR to detect # rows for input and send out empty d...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions Future Consideration

Setting to restrict data function code editing to the creator only.

We provide DXP files containing embedded data functions to our customers. Therefore, we would like to have a setting that prevents customers from viewing or editing the scripts of the data functions we created. It would be highly beneficial if thi...
8 months ago in Spotfire / Data Functions Future Consideration

Manage Model objects between data functions

One data function used to train a model, another used to predict with new data. Need easy way to retain model between data functions. Using the "pickle" package works but is but cumbersome. Perhaps "Analytics Models" could be used.
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions Future Consideration
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