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    Allow emails to distribution lists

    Manually maintaining each dashboard's email list doesn't make sense as many are redundant and already captured within distribution lists. Currently Automation Services strips distribution lists out of the email field.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    HTML in Automation Services emails

    Because emails use images for visualizations, using the tool for a daily report is limiting. We are no longer using Spotfire but automating R scripts with HTML to push out automated email reports.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    User permission controls for viewing/editing Automation Services schedules

    Currently in Spotfire X, adding a user to the "Automation Services Users group" so that they have the ability to manage automation job schedules gives them the ability to edit all schedules. We want to allow users to self-manage schedules but givi...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Preserve Format into Excel files: Automation Services Job Builder "Export Data to File"

    SPF-I-24 "Export any table to Excel with preserved number formatting, layout and style." was implemented in Spotfire Analyst 14.0 LTS but also needs to be implemented for Automation Services Job Builder "Export Data to File" task. As of version 14...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Add more date fields to Automation Services

    Customer would like to use more fields for date i.e.g {yyyymm} or {yyyy-mm} for only year and month, in addition to the existing {yyyymmdd} and {date}. The idea is to allow customize date or time fields, e.g. by combining yyyy and mm and dd to com...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Planning to implement

    Retry failed jobs in Automation Services

    Currently if you run longer-lastig automation jobs you have the issue if anything goes wrong for the shortest amount of time (e.g. temporary network issue, issue with the drive where we export PDFs to etc) the complete job fails and there is no wa...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Automation Services Database Logging

    We need to be able to report on Automation Services job failures as this functionality is not present in Automation Services (ie: job failure notification via e-mail when failure occurs). 1.) The JOB_INSTANCES table is purging rows after approxima...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Add If Block to Automation Services

    It would be really nice to add an If Block to the automation tasks to conditionally run the next step.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Planning to implement

    capture image of entire page/tab and send an E-email via Automation services

    currently we can only select the respective visualization and send it in the Automation services, customers are asking to provide the screenshot of entire page instead of each visualization
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Add more automation actions - refresh schema

    Hello, Please add a task in automation services to refresh the schema for a file. Currently this is a manual process for each file so if there was a way to automate this behavior via AS at a certain cadence it would be extremely helpful.
    5 months ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration
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