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    Improved LDAP error logging

    When LDAP search is run, to verify a logging in user, and the server returns logs a warning like "Error performing an LDAP search", the search should also be logged, so the reason for the errors can be investigated properly. Not know why LDAP retu...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Pivot / Un-Pivot with in-database connections

    When working with in-database connections it would be useful if it was possible to push pivot and un-pivot operations down to the database instead of requiring that data is in Spotfire memory when performing these operations.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Public API to check/uncheck the "Show notifications about mismatches" option

    When programmatically creating visualizations with two or more tables, it can be that the specified ColumnRelation(s) are enough to properly link the data but that not all columns involved in the visual are matched, i.e. the visual and tables are ...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    show more information in data loading dialog

    Currently we can get below information in data loading dialog when opening analysis or loading data, \! filetype=Spotfire.DataFormat.Text; version=2.0; \! property=Name; category=Column; type=String; \! property=DataType; category=Column; type=S...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Allow optionality to 'Limit data using filterings' on 'Marking' subsets

    The ability to use and view 'Marking subsets' in a visualization is hugely powerful and heavily utilized in my workflows. While the marking-subset's resulting data shown in a visualization (the data selected by that Marking) is limited by the 'Lim...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Disable Schedule for Scheduling & Routing Files

    In "Scheduling & Routing" currently you can disable rules for files, which turns off the routing of users to a cached copy of the file. However, when troubleshooting issues with a data source, it would be helpful to be able to quickly disable ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    Set the dimension to be used as a measure in the Essbase Connector

    Following this idea: https://ideas.tibco.com/ideas/TS-I-5554 It would be useful to be able to set the dimension to be used a measure, even though there is already account dimension found by Spotfire. in short, being able to define (already implem...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Document property: slider controls need formatting options

    While building an analysis tool for my company I came across the need to use a number of document properties as inputs. In an effort to put some bounds on what the users could enter I decided to make these document properties as sliders, so I coul...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 2 Future Consideration

    Improve categorical coloring rules based on counts

    I don't think that Spotfire does this, and it does not look like it from my eyeballing. When determining the color mapping for a categorical column, Spotfire should first perform a count of all column values, then apply its "best" categorical colo...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Need breadcrumbs to trace the origin of visualizations when creating reports

    When exporting to PDF, after you have created a report and added visualizations to it, in the "Selected contents section", there is no way to tell which visualization oirginated in what page. I created a report 6 months ago. Now that needs to chan...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration
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