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    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Want connection capability for .asc files

    .asc files are basically csv files, but the Spotfire software cannot directly connect to these. We would find business value in being able to directly connect to these.
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Limit concurrent loading datatables in custom data source and Information Link

    A prevention function is needed to prevent some users from occupying DB sessions or resources by loading large amounts of data. AS-IS : Not available TO-BE : Provides a setting function to limit the number of concurrent loading datatables in cu...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Shorter loading time for custom data sources

    When loading a file with a custom data source, the loading time becomes longer in proportion to the number of columns. So, they need to requires shortening of loading time. AS-IS : Repeat processing as many columns TO-BE : - Repetitive proces...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Add option to define fixed size for a label in the form of image in a map chart marker layer

    Adding label as image might be useful in various usecases, unfortunately typically you would like to align the image with some other layer and its points. At the moment for labels in the form of image in a map chart marker layer there is only slid...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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