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    Display a custom panel when no document is open

    Ability to have custom panels be accessible before any document is opened is needed to support scenarios where the panel has functionality that allows the user to open a document or creating a new document from data.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    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...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / API 3 Needs Info

    Change column selection an axis with arrow key

    In Spotfire 6.5 it was possible to quickly apply the columns in a data table to the axis of a chart by just using the key arrows on the keyboard. Now in 7.8 this nice feature is gone. Could it please be reintroduced?
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Infer data types by introspecting csv files

    The TDV standard File-Delimited adapter introspects all columns in the CSV file as VARCHAR type. It would save time if the data types were inferred by looking at the data in the CSV file.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 3 Already exists

    Option to make normal table data editable and/or make new record entry in backend table from Webplayer

    There are often needs for users to present the current status of the configuration tables and also allow the users to be able to modify the configurations. Right now all normal tables (dashboard) are readonly. It will really help to have option ...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Support introspection of column comments from MS SQL Server

    No description provided
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    expose compact hierarchy filter for TreeMap

    TreeMaps are important hierarchical visualizations and navigating the hierarchy is an important interaction for treemaps. I do this all the time. So do my friends. Users are tyoically not modifying any of the other settings, but they need to navig...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Bookmarks Manager and Highlight Current Bookmark.

    Customers would like to be able to have the option to custom arrange their bookmarks. Also, they would like the current bookmark that is being viewed to be highlighted in the Bookmarks Bar.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Bookmarks 0 Future Consideration

    Connectivity with Graph Databases

    Be able to connect to graph DBs like Ne04j without using data functions and to interactively query it to create network charts.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Allow query results to be cached in-memory on Server

    This is different than our normal caching. We want to offer ways to store query results in memory on the server for high-speed / low-latency interaction with the data.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 Future Consideration
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