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    JDBC drivers - Summary with all download links

    Checking for new versions of the drivers for N vendors is time consuming. The page https://community.tibco.com/wiki/tibco-spotfire-jdbc-data-access-connectivity-details#toc-35 contains some information, but you have to click through dozen of links...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    show alias(display name) instead of "n columns" when many columns are specified on an axis

    Customer would like to show alias(display name) instead of "n columns" (n is the number of columns) when many columns are specified on an axis. Thanks.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Un-hide column in WebPlayer

    Consumer user in WebPlayer is able to hide a column (see screen shot). There is no possibility in the menu to "un.hide" the hidden columns. It would make sense if the users could un-hide the column they marked as hidden before.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Modernize Impala Support

    The Support for the built-in Impala Connector is ancient. It is based on Impala 2.7 (according to the name of the adapter "cloudera_impala_2_7") which was the recent version in CDH 5.9 (see here: Cloudera Impala 2.7.0 New Features ). CDH 5.9 itsel...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Add the ability to include TDV descriptions in the OpenAPI specification

    It is possible to generate an OpenAPI specification from the ODATA CSDL, however CSDL doesn't include the descriptions of the entities and attributes of the published objects. It would be useful if we could include the descriptions as this will al...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 To be Reviewed

    Moveable Transformations in Data Canvas

    It would be more user friendly to be able to shift transformations up or down relatively without having to delete and recreate them.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Insert custom expression into title of visual

    At the moment, it is possible to insert Dynamic Item with Calculated value into Text area. In this way you can visualize the value of arbitrary custom expression in text area. I am suggesting to have same dynamic option in the graph tittle. Usecas...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Be able to perform on-the-fly datum transformations when adding map layers with different CRS

    By default, Spotfire works in WGS84 (World Mercator). A lot of data exists in different datums and projections but Spotfire has no capacity to be able to simultaneously apply datum transformations so that the layers spatially align. This is a seri...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Add a file adapter to connect to JSON files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to JSON files to read in data.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 2 Future Consideration

    API to read Min and Max values for Y-axis when values are not set

    Referring to https://community.tibco.com/wiki/how-read-and-set-values-axis-range-multiple-scales-mode-tibco-spotfire-using-ironpython it is not possible to fetch the values if the Min and Max fields are empty / displaying the grayed out text 'Auto...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration
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