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Keep the Column Properties dialogue box

I saw in the release notes for the latest version update that the Column Properties dialogue box would be going away in a future release. Please keep it! It is so much easier to use than the flyout thing on the left. And I don't know of any other ...
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience Needs Info

Please expand the GIS-related functionalities

While Tableau supports Mapbox APIs, Spotfire lacks advanced features like map matching. I would like to see more comprehensive GIS capabilities integrated.
about 1 month ago in Spotfire / API / Maps Needs Info

Improve Select Column Dialog: Resizable Window and Horizontal Scrollbar Needed

When using the Select Column dialog (Columns selection window) in Spotfire, there are several usability issues: The dialog window is not resizable, making it difficult to view long column names. The Available columns and Selected columns list ...
3 months ago in Spotfire / Analytics Needs Info

Spotfire Mods vs Native Visuals

After working extensively with Mods in production scenarios, one limitation keeps surfacing over and over: Mods operate on a materialized data view, while native visuals operate on top of Spotfire’s semantic layer. This difference might seem subtl...
2 months ago in Spotfire / Mods Needs Info

Launch time configuration parameters for new R Service needed, for NFS volumes.

This idea is needed for v14+, with the new R service, which is missing a key capability, allowing us to pass in NFS Share volume info at launch time, which prevents us from containerizing it, and further homogenizing our deployment. For many years...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration Needs Info

Easy way to inventory licenses for multiple servers

This idea is requested by a current Spotfire customer. Multiple servers make it difficult to inventory licenses. Currently, each server goes in and exports license files, collects them, and aggregates them. Hope this can be improved.
almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration Needs Info

Make memory consumption of visualizations visible

When working with "big data" it is important to keep memory requirements under control and oftentimes it is necessary to optimize analyses to reduce memory needs. There is actually two main sources driving Spotfire's memory needs: The size of the ...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management Needs Info

Stop Analyst from stealing Windows' focus

When opening Spotfire, or when executing something that has "progress", it steals the focus from WindowsOS multiple times. This is very disruptive for the user. While it loads I want to be able to surf the web, write e-mails or whatever my work de...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience Needs Info

expose API to add custom tool developed using C# into f(x) flyout

Please expose API to add custom tool developed using C# into f(x) flyout.
6 months ago in Spotfire / API Needs Info

Implementing the Lineage feature while dealing with the data

Better to implement the Lineage feature while dealing with Data analytics
6 months ago in Spotfire / Analytics Needs Info
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