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    CLI or API command to restart webplayer instance only ( not service )

    We plan to automatically restart the instance ( not web player) when resource crunch hits. for this we need a cli or api method to achieve this. currently understand there is no such option, but would need this option for automation purposes.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    please allow to use AND / OR / wildcard to search for license features in "License and features" tab of "Groups" page

    please allow to use AND / OR / wildcard to search for license features in "License and features" tab of "Groups" page.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Needs Info

    See user preferences via web player

    In the Analyst Client it is possible via the help menu, to see the users preferences. It would help to be able to do this via the Web Player, as some users do not have or regularly use the Analyst Client. To enhance this more, give it the ability ...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Easy way to modify appearance of the web portal login page

    Our users often fail to log in via our Active Directory-linked authentication because they're adding "@companyname.com" after their user id. I wanted to add a piece of text to the login page to tell users not to do this, but the only way to do thi...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 3 Already exists

    Enable schedule updates for calculated values

    When a dashboard with a large data volume uses hundreds of calculated values, although scheduled updates is in place for it, calculated values are exempt from scheduled updates and they are computed on users' clients (Spotfire Analyst, Spotfire we...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    measure how long it takes to render a visualization

    Customer want to have the capability to measure how long it takes to render a visualization, e.g. (1) OOTB (diagnostics information, etc) (2) from log file (3) using Spotfire API (from IronPython script or C# custom module)
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Cancel on-demand data loading when user closes analyses

    I've always argued that this is a bug, but have been told to submit as an enhancement request :( If a user starts a large on-demand data load from an analysis loaded within Web Player, that load will continue even if the user closes the analysis...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 3 Future Consideration

    I would like the "Edit">"Edit in WebUI" menu in Studio to open the Web UI flow.

    When I select a flow created in WebUI from TDV Studio and click "Edit in WebUI" on the menu bar, only the top page of WebUI opens, but not the selected flow. Could you please change the specification so that the selected flow opens? If it is diffi...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data catalog / metadata 0 Future Consideration

    Leave aliases once set, even after unchecking them in the grid panel

    If a column with an alias is unchecked in the grid panel, the alias will disappear. Please see the attached file for details. This is inconvenient because if the column is checked again, the alias must be set again. I hope this will be improved.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 0 To be Reviewed

    Make R package management robust

    At the moment the installed packages visible in Package Management are only the ones installed in individual user folders but the packages deployed via spk are not visible (to protect them from accidential deletion as per Case_ID:02077853). This c...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration
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