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    Manual setting of primary key column (Impala, DB2, etc)

    When using external data, detail visualisations need a primary key in the datasource for markings to be applied. In case of views or custom queries, the resultset has no primary key defined on the database level. Would be great when we could selec...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Formating Options for Markers Fill and Outline (Colors, Transparency, Dash Type, Width)

    Dear all, There are cases were we want to format the markers of a visualization by setting the fill color white and choosing a color only for the outline of the marker. Just like we do in PowerPoint, we might also want to set the transparency, d...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Add ability to apply hotfixes in a serverless environment

    In the current setup, the only way to apply a hotfix to the Spotfire Analyst desktop client is by logging into a Spotfire Server instance where the hotfix is deployed and then accepting the updates. For those with a serverless Spotfire setup this ...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Planning to implement

    Terminating python script while it is running

    There a lot of useful functions that are missing when working with python scripts. For example being able to terminate a python script while it is running. There are many ways of adding this into the script such as having the script open a new win...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Be able to set default values for filters without coding

    In many cases, I would like to set default filters, and there is no out of the box way to do it, it requires some code that my client (and I) want to avoid. for exemple, I need to show by default only the open tickets, but don't want to prevent en...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Keep f(x) flyout items up-to-date with library

    When a data function has been deleted from library, it does not always reflect in the flyout (possibly because a client reload is needed?). Data functions are also not updated with the latest version in the library, nor is existing version number ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Access miniatures in text areas via the API

    Sometimes the need arises to manipulate a text area using IronPython to change specific parts of the text area. However, when changing the html content of a text area using IronPython you often destroy the Spotfire dynamic contents (calculated v...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Create new filtering scheme

    Once user sets a group of filters, an option to 'set current filters as new filtering scheme' would save a lot of time and effort in creating multiple filter schemes. Some of this can be achieved with bookmarks but users want to create multiple fi...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to adjust width and height of a visual through API (using python)

    Our dashboards have a large number of pages. Each page has the same textarea. It would be great to be able to set the width of these through an API call. Same for panels (e.g. make all filter panels same width on each page when showing)
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    notify when mod is synchronized from library to dxp file

    Please notify when mod is synchronized from library to dxp file (which refers to a mod saved in library), when the mod in library is updated. Currently there is no notification when synchronization occurred, and dxp won't change to dirty state eit...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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