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    102 VOTE

    Replace all Tooltips with jQuery qTip type look, feel and config

    Currently tooltips are difficult to use effectively in Spotfire BUT essential in value adding to the users experience. If you allowed a user to set up a tooltip with some base options like: hover-over : true/false; follow-mouse: true/false; style-...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration
    106 VOTE

    Search should be available in listbox property controls

    As the list box filters have the "(All)" option, the customer is using the list box property controls to work around this. The list box property control, on the other hand, does not include the search functionality which is required as they have a...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 2 Future Consideration

    Ability to disable storing data in the undostack to prevent continuous increase in memory consumption when data is refreshed

    Per request from the Support team (Case#02157929), I am creating this urgent feature request. The customer(s) are severely impacted by the continuous memory consumption when the open template (a dashboard) has automatic refresh every n minutes. At...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 5 Future Consideration
    101 VOTE

    Configurable sorting in cross table headers

    Currently cross tables are presented with a default sorting, as alphanumeric ascending in precedence of column/row positions. This default can now be adjusted to sort based on the results, but not on the values in the headings themselves. Cros...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    Cache job auto-restart upon failure

    We would like the option to automatically reattempt a cache job when it fails. We have some public api data sources that randomly fail from time to time, and they succeed if you just restart them. It would save us time and failure alerts if they c...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching / data movement 2 Future Consideration

    AI recommendations for analyses from the library

    I would like AI support in Spotfire to be able to help me find the right analysis based on my criteria, that could involve text input, specific objects such as a certain data connection or data source, or the analysis being similar to another anal...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Truncate cache buckets instead of delete

    Currently buckets have all their records deleted, and then the new records are inserted. In the database this means 2 write operations, and is a major cause of index fragmentation. Most databases allow you to truncate the table, which is only an a...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Planning to implement

    Improve performance of query retrieving user authorization for more than 300% by removing order by statement

    We discovered a Spotfire query that retrieves user authorization, which has the highest cost and is used more than 400 times an hour on our system. It contains an "order by" statement. If this statement is removed it performs 300% faster. Although...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 7 Future Consideration

    Add a file adapter to connect to parquet files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to parquet files to read in data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 3 Future Consideration

    add API to manipulate CheckBoxHierarchyFilter

    One of our customers would like to use the API (via an IronPython script) to manipulate the CheckBoxHierarchyFilter in the following ways: (1) Get the search results. (2) Perform all four actions ("Select", "Deselect", "Select Other Values", and "...
    3 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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