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    Customize Data Connectors

    The ability to add JDBC connections exists but the DB DATA connectors is limited to a finite list. The need exists to be able to add additional data connectors to anything that you can configure and ODBC connection for. Adding data table does not ...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    read the auto scale function through the API

    The ScaleAxisBase.Range currently returns a null value if auto scale is on. I would like to read the auto scale function so i can give multiple graphs the same scale. This especially handy for data where you can not up front deterimene the scale o...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    allow to configure processor affinity for WP/AS on machines with more than 64 logical processors

    As per the support case 2568917, configuring processor affinity for WP/AS is only supported on machines with a maximum of 64 logical processors. <performance> <!-- Configuration related to containers. The runningInside flag is used to ena...
    3 months ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    AI support for writing SQL queries in Information links

    There should be AI support in Spotfire for writing SQL in information links. This should work also for cases where separate data tables need to be combined.
    6 months ago in Spotfire / AI / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Switch Theme Using IronPython

    I really want to be able to add a switch control into a page and switch between different themes: Light Dark Custom Currently you can't do this via IronPython
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add transformations to external data tables (and database pushback of these)

    Spotfire lacks one very important feature to make data preparation more useful: basic operations on external tables. Other tools offer this in terms of joins, filters for row and columns, simple calculations, aggregation and similar. All these ope...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Support of SQL Complex Data Types (ARRAY, MAP, STRUCT)

    In our databases (Oracle, Impala, ...) we use complex data types (ARRAYS, MAPS, STRUCTURES). Those data types are not supported today by Spotfire in-db connectors.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    select multiple pages and move

    Customer would like to have tha capability to select multiple pages(pressing shift key and click pages) and move them all together, similar to what one can do with excel sheets.
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to search inside data sources in information designer

    I'm often working on information links. To add columns in joins, column elements, filters etc. I always have to scroll through the tables in the data source, open them, add the columns... This is time consuming and annoying work. My suggestion is ...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Save any type of object in library

    Ability to save any type of object in library. So if I have custom data function or for that matter any custom extension whose state I want to save in library and make it sharable it is not possible.In case of data functions things like conneciton...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration
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