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    expose API to configure preferences for groups

    We have some Spotfire Analyst custom modules that utilize preferences to store settings, and these settings are in json format so it's difficult to modify it using text editor so we provide a custom tool to do this. To apply these settings to pref...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Go language binding for StreamBase Client API

    Starting to get some input that there are use cases for Go language applications (such as Flogo) to be able to send (and presumably receive) tuples to and from StreamBase Input and Output Streams. Entering this as an idea for a new feature. Here i...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 5 Future Consideration

    pre-configure font / format of Y axis lables, format in Statistics table, for boxplot

    Please allow to pre-configure below for boxplot under Administration Manager => Preferences: BoxPlot -> BoxPlotPreferences. (1) font of Y axis lables, (2) format of Y axis lables, (3) font in Statistics table, (4) format in Statistics table,...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    API: Set starting folder for LibraryBrowserDialog

    I've confirmed the following with the support team: There is currently no way to set the starting folder when opening the LibraryBrowserDialog via python. I can set the SelectedItem property, but if I set this to a folder in the library, that fold...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Be able to set default values for filters without coding

    In many cases, I would like to set default filters, and there is no out of the box way to do it, it requires some code that my client (and I) want to avoid. for exemple, I need to show by default only the open tickets, but don't want to prevent en...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Use mouse dragging to move the folder list in the Studio UI.

    I would like the Studio UI to allow drag and drop to navigate the folder list like Windows Explorer.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / operating systems 0 Future Consideration

    Terminating python script while it is running

    There a lot of useful functions that are missing when working with python scripts. For example being able to terminate a python script while it is running. There are many ways of adding this into the script such as having the script open a new win...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Access miniatures in text areas via the API

    Sometimes the need arises to manipulate a text area using IronPython to change specific parts of the text area. However, when changing the html content of a text area using IronPython you often destroy the Spotfire dynamic contents (calculated v...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to adjust width and height of a visual through API (using python)

    Our dashboards have a large number of pages. Each page has the same textarea. It would be great to be able to set the width of these through an API call. Same for panels (e.g. make all filter panels same width on each page when showing)
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Make font for panels configurable

    Under Tools -> Options you can adjust all sorts of fonts. However it is missing the font to be used for the various panels (Data, Filter,...). Could this please be added as well?
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration
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