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    Natively recognize spatial geometry from Snowflake for Map Charts

    With the snowflake data connector, it would be nice if the Map Chat visualization would natively read and recognize the geometry stored in the spatial table. This would eliminate the need to create all the additional columns spotfire requires as w...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Visualization 0 Planning to implement

    Data Table Description

    I need the ability to add a detailed description of a data table in the Spotfire client. When I have multiple data tables in a complex analysis, it is easy to lose track of what purpose each data table serves. I experimented with adding a new Data...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 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

    Spotfire .txt export carries BOM, need a txt or UTF-8 .txt option without BOM - byte-order mark

    I am using Spotfire to generate tabulated .txt files using export function / save as .txt and automation services -> save tab as txt to be imported into an application that receives tabulated external data in .txt format to be loaded. Spotfire ...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Export 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

    Manual setting of primary key column (Impala, DB2, etc)

    When using external data, detail visualisations need a primary key in the datasource for markings to be applied. In case of views or custom queries, the resultset has no primary key defined on the database level. Would be great when we could selec...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Keep f(x) flyout items up-to-date with library

    When a data function has been deleted from library, it does not always reflect in the flyout (possibly because a client reload is needed?). Data functions are also not updated with the latest version in the library, nor is existing version number ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / User Experience 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...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Formating Options for Markers Fill and Outline (Colors, Transparency, Dash Type, Width)

    Dear all, There are cases were we want to format the markers of a visualization by setting the fill color white and choosing a color only for the outline of the marker. Just like we do in PowerPoint, we might also want to set the transparency, d...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 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...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration
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