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    Hide Repeating Hierarchy Levels

    Flat ragged hierarchies often repeat values at lower levels due to different drill down paths. It would be very nice to have the options to hide levels if the parent has the same value. Currently I have to click down through many repeating levels ...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Which spotfire reports and particular visualization within a report has more than 3000 datapoints

    We are looking for a high-level design of a solution that outlines the appropriate APIs or metadata tables to query, using the application profiler. The goal is to identify Which spotfire reports and particular visualization within a report has mo...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Will not implement

    From library, open item on new tab

    Sometimes I want to open two analyst files using webplayer in order to compare one data, so on that case, I would like to be able to do right click on library item and click open on a new tab to open the second while still navigate on the origin l...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Library 3 Already exists

    Automation Services Job builder - Send Email

    More robust e-mail configuration settings when sending out emails from Job Builder: SSL Settings, port, login for email authentication. I only got some basic SMTP settings pop up. It should not be pop up, I sould be able to set everything, so ...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Embedding Data Functions

    We use Data Functions from our server library to quickly add features to new DXP files. The issue we are having is once you add a data function to a new DXP file it keeps the server path. If someone make a change to the function and then saves, it...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Modify OData Connection via IronPython API

    In cases where consumers may have various OData URI's, it would be nice if they could change the URI directly from a property control input field, and update the underlying data without entering Analyst. This might ideally be done through IronPyth...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    TERR Graphical limitations

    One of the requests that I receive most from users who are R and Python programmers, is the request that within Spotfire they could create graphics using the open source language packages. I know that currently the TERR engine does not provide gra...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Put (Column Names) on Shape By axis to allow for multiple scales

    In scatter plots if you want to have multiple y scales (especially one to the left and one on the right), you need to color by (Column Name) or trellis by (Column Name). However, in scientific literature the normal way is to differentiate the left...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow virtual columns to support IN clauses/multiple value filtering

    We have customers using virtual columns in an SQL view, e.g: Select *, {DECLARE p_postdate date } p_postdate from table where post_date=p_postdate This functionality needs to be expanded to support multiple values pf p_postdate (i.e, an IN claus...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / sql support 0 Future Consideration

    Rendering Images in Cross Tables

    Currently, image rendering is possible in tool tips and in tables. In a cross table, because of required aggregation, images cannot be rendered. If an aggregation option such as 'First()' is used, there is no reason why the image cannot be rendere...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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