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    Official support to connect to MongoDB via JDBC

    Although you can use a JDBC driver on the Spotfire server and connect to MongoDB via Info Links, this is not yet officially supported as I was told. Consequently I do not get support as I'm having weird issues. Since Mongo is more and more used, o...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 6 Future Consideration

    Option to explicitly select the columns to include when inserting columns (rather than only exclude columns)

    When inserting columns into a data table within Spotfire, the user selects the column(s) to include in the last window. However, what is actually happening behind the scenes is an Exclude Columns transformation where the columns the user hasn't se...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Apply colors only in Python

    I want to be able to do through python what I can do through the GUI when I apply a coloring scheme with "colors only" to a bar chart. It seems like by default it applies by values. I want a button to be able to re-color my categorical bins when I...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / API / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Add "Limit data using expression" functionality to data function input data

    When specifying input data for a data function, I am missing the "Limit data using expression" function. The limit by filtering and/or marking is there - but not the expression? This would really help limit the number of records sent to R for proc...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    More Color Themes

    There are 2 major Canvas Styling themes that ship with Spotfire: Light and Dark. Could more be added to ship with Spotfire by default? For ideas, Adobe keeps a trending page of most popular themes in use today: https://color.adobe.com/explore/?f...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Reply To in Automation Services

    Within an SMTP server it is possible to specify a from email and a reply to email separate. This enables automated reports to be sent out using some non existing email address. auotReport@somewhere.com in the from field but when they reply they wo...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    DataFunction support for external data (in-db)

    The current DataFunction paradigm only allows for sending data from and to the Spotfire in-memory data engine. For a Spotfire user, a Spotfire data table is a Spotfire data table, whether it is external or not. For data science and analysis applic...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Control whether data functions execute when Spotfire initially opens when set to refresh automatically

    There is often a need to control the order of running of data functions, or to only run a data function when inputs have changed. Another common use case is to automate these data functions through Automation services. Typically this can be contro...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Add zebra striping to a crosstable and graphical tables

    Add alternating row colors to Spotfire cross and graphical tables for consistency with regular tables Here is a workaround https://community.spotfire.com/articles/spotfire/javascript-row-styling-for-spotfire-tables-r3471/
    5 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Support multiple geometry fields in a data table

    Currently Spotfire is limited to only supporting a single geometry field within data table. We are storing multiple aspects of a well's geometry within our data source (1 row per well) and would like the option to choose which geometry should be r...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Maps 1 Future Consideration
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