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    Filtering Scheme Improvements

    Right now, the default filter type is often inconvenient. For instance, if a column has more than 3 unique options, a check box filter is not my preferred filter type. So, I have to go through and manually set all the filter types to my preferred ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 2 Future Consideration

    Add method in IronPython API to export visualization (as-is) to Excel

    Currently, the CreateDataWriter method is available to export to Excel (reference); however, this export strips any formatting in the underlying visualization - e.g., Table. Spotfire v14.x offers an in-UI feature to export visualizations, as-is (r...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    speed up csv load

    Attached screenshot indicates that csv file load is much slower than stdf or sbdf. It makes sense that sbdf is fast because it's binary, however we didn't expect stdf is almost as fast as sbdf. Since both csv and stdf are text files and the size o...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Draw Shape on Map

    It would be really helpful if you could draw a radius or square block and keep it on the map. Much like how the radius function currently works in 7.6 but instead of the circle disappearing after the rows are marked the circle would stay and ideal...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Highlight all related data on visualizations on one-to-many relations)

    Scenario Two data tables have a Relation on a common column, as well as Column Match. When mouse hovers on a data point/row in a Scatter and Table visualizations respectively, a separate Line Chart responds by spotlighting the corresponding data (...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    deploy mod as spk

    This idea is very much different from the design of how mod works currently though. However, deploying mod as spk would greatly reduce the complexity of how to use it, e.g. trust mod, trust author, trust certificate, code signing, certificate cost...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Schedule Update: add the possibility to start the update when a file is created

    for exemple update is scheduled at 06h AM = > at 6 AM the schedule start and wait for the file //temp/schedule/logistic_updt_donne.txt. When this file is created by external job, the update can begin. At the end of update, the file is deleted t...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    Option setting to hide table relations stripe indicator in Title Bar by default

    With greater emphasis on Theme styling, the color stripe indicator for related tables detracts from the overall aesthetic value. There is currently a Document Property to turn off the stripe indicator. It would be helpful to add this as a configur...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Canonical Analysis For More Than 80 Variables

    Actually, the Canonical Analysis in Statistica is limited to a maximum of 80 variables to analyse. For many analyses even drastically more variables may occure (in some cases even up to 1000 variables). For that reson, It is meaningfull to increas...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 To be Reviewed

    one config to change the output folder of all log files of Node Manager

    We'd like to have the ability to have one config to change the output folder of all log files of Spotfire Server, aka all log files written to below folder, C:\spotfire\nodemanager\14.0.6\nm\logs Currently we know there are several items need to c...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration
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