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    Data Functions IDE / Integration

    Writing and debugging data functions is currently difficult. If we could have a better IDE for writing data functions in, or even the ability to write functions in Visual Studio Code and integrate this with Spotfire somehow would be very helpful.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 2 Future Consideration
    202 VOTE

    API for Text Area Action and Property Controls

    Developers would like to be able to create text areas, properties and input controls in the text area that manipulate those properties. One example would be to have a tool that would perform an S+ calculation. A user of Spotfire could launch a too...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 11 Future Consideration

    Localizing the Statistica Algorithm names, categories, and descriptions into Japanese within the Spotfire.

    This request aims to localize the names, categories, and descriptions of Statistica Algorithms within Spotfire into Japanese.Currently, these elements are displayed in English, which may create challenges for Japanese users in understanding and ef...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Set a default custom theme for new DXP files

    We would like a default visual theme for analyses specified by the administrator. Themes should be stored separately in the Spotfire library and changed in one place. This would make it easier to keep analyses look and feel consistent and reduce t...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Create Local Administrators, so that Analysts can manage access to their libraries

    We would like to give Spotfire Analysts the responsibility to add users and/or user groups themselves, so they can manage their own user groups and/or library permissions. Looking at the differences of the Administrator and Analyst Licenses the pe...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration
    184 VOTE

    Table and column auto-width, min-width and in-column search

    Currently tables in Spotfire look very ugly, not user friendly, have static widths and always laden with scrollbars and no built-in search functionality. Our users didn't want to use them. If you look at jQuery dataTables as an example of what a m...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration
    182 VOTE

    Better support of web services

    When you need to consume data from a web service in Spotfire there are different options like implementing a custom data source, develop an Iron Python script, use an R script on your Stats server or use something like Composite or Jboss Teiid tha...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration

    Tibco should create a "Calendar" visualization type in Spotfire.

    I always find myself struggling to find a good place to create calendar visualizations to add to presentations or project documents. In discussions with coworkers we came to the conclusion that this should absolutely be a chart-type in Spotfire. I...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Allow Custom Title Bar Colors per Individual Visualization

    Description:Currently, title bar background colors are controlled globally through Canvas Themes and cannot be customized individually per visualization. Requested Feature:Add a property setting to customize the Title Bar background color for each...
    2 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
    145 VOTE

    Load Parquet, ORC and Avro data files from Amazon S3 and HDFS

    Spotfire should be able to connect to and read Parquet, ORC and Avro files from Amazon S3 and HDFS.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 9 Future Consideration
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