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    Provide support for adding the datasources using ODBC

    Currently we can connect to the data sources using JDBC protocol except of Microsoft excel ODBC. We should expand this to other data sources including the custom adapter data sources so that this will give us the flexibility to connect more data s...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Already exists

    Allow Admins to post in-tool messages to all connected clients.

    To provide better user engagement and more efficient use of resources, especially in light of dynamically scaling down the number of active Spotfire servers in a cloud configuration, Spotfire Admins should be able to broadcast important messages t...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Add XGboost Tree to extend the data mining/machine learning capability in Statistica

    Current data mining/machine learning in Statistica is okay but not enough, there is no latest or advanced classification algorithm available which is 1)not competitive with open source/ some other vendors 2) performance will be improved if introdu...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 1 Unlikely to implement

    Provide a way for a Published TDV web service's Schema to use Input arguments as-is

    Provide a way for a Published TDV web service's Schema to use Input arguments as-is, instead of pre-pending them with the Operation name
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 Planning to implement

    Missing API for Graphical Table.CreateLayout

    We found out that we have APIs to programmatically scroll table plots, summary table and cross tables using API var table = visual.As<SummaryTable>();layout = table.CreateLayout(); But we do not have such API for Graphical tables. This is a ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Support dynamic secrets for connecting to data sources

    Our security policy requires that all databases (specifically those on the public cloud) use dynamic secrets (rather than static credentials). Dynamic secrets are well suited to processes (e.g., Java, node.js, etc.) that are built using a pipeline...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Add a Favourites folder and Recent Locations option to Information Designer

    THis would save a lot of time. The Information Designer doesn’t even remember where you were last, and open at that location. You have to constantly navigate from the root folder. Adding Favourites and Recent Locations would be a great help. Also,...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

    AutoSynch Library TERR Data Function Parameters, not just scripts

    I'm able to force an auto-sync of a library function upon opening a Spotfire template. This is very useful for distributed templates among many users, as incremental changes in the function will be automatically pushed to every user. However, the ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    Ability to wrap x and y axis titles

    Currently, when x and y axis titles are long, it will overflow instead of wrapped. This seems to be a basic thing for most visualization but not Spotfire.
    11 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to export/share shapes, fonts, and marker size like colors

    Currently, we are able to export (save as) colors based on category to be used by other plots. But there is no ability to do this for everything else like shapes, fonts, marker size, etc. This will safe a lot of time for us.
    11 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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