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Override current culture when calculating week numbers

How week number are calculated in Spotfire depends on the current culture/locale settings in Windows. This means that the week number in Spotfire will be different on a US/English version of Windows than it would be on a Swedish version. I want to...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions Future Consideration

Allow Data Function to run on local machines' Open Source R engine

This relates to Idea TS-I-6178 . Scenario Data Function is set to Type: Open Source R. The script runs using server's open source R, as opposed to local machine's, even though system's PATH includes the location of local open source R. Setting `Ri...
about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions Future Consideration

Import data from multiple excel sheets at once into a single datatable

When an excel file with multiple files have to be imported, it will always allow to choose one sheet at a time to create a data table. Whereas what he / customer is looking for is to merge all the data from different sheets into one data table whe...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions Future Consideration

Theme - Tick mark for just one visualization

I need to enable tick marks only for one visualization.
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics Future Consideration

Add Financial Calculations and Optimization OOTB in Spotfire

It would be useful to have basic financial calculations, such as Individual Rate of Return (IRR) and Net Present Value (NPV) in Spotfire, especially for users who are familiar with them from other products such as Excel. Similarly, basic scenario ...
over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics Future Consideration

Data function does not have option to enable/disable prompting

Unlike tables from data sources, the data tables from data functions have their 'Prompt for new settings before loading' check box disabled. This means that we have no real control on when a data function prompts users for new settigns! It would b...
almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API / Data Functions Future Consideration

Additional string function where you are able to change the rounding settings

Belongs to the article https://community.tibco.com/questions/rounding-issue-string-function. If you use a numeric column and convert the result to a string column, there are always only 2 decimals shown. For calculating P values you´ll need 4 dec...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Management 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 Future Consideration

Support for R-style graphics

While TERR supports the creation of graphics via Javascript packages (like those based on htmlwidgets), it does not currently support R-style graphics (e.g., the plot function)
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R Future Consideration

record data function execution in user action log

Please record data function execution in user action log, including both executed locally and on server. We have many customers running data functions (Python / R / TERR) on daily basis and many of them consume lots of system resources, aka CPU or...
10 months ago in Spotfire / Data Functions Future Consideration
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