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    Feed prompted information links via simple query string in the URL

    it would be great if prompted information links could be fed values by appending values to the report url as a set of name/value pairs. No need for JavaScript API. This would allow external applications to link directly to reports and to tailor th...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 9 Already exists

    Allow filled vs hollow markers

    Is it feasible to control whether a marker is filled or hollow? I understand from tech support that it's not. It would be useful for highlighting certain data, particularly if it could be used for marked rows.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Already exists

    Add Color Scheme Groupings for Map Charts

    As an oil & gas user, it would be incredibly helpful to be able to see different colors and scales for the "color by" item on a map chart. I could have a property control passing through one or many columns of data into the color by axis and a...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Display Barcodes from alphanumeric strings

    The requirement is to be able to display a barcode in a tabular visualization from an alphanumeric string. Other applications can do this, using techniques that I think requires specific fonts to be used that render as barcodes. It's currently pos...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    add API to get UI language of Analyst for Action Mods

    Please add API to get UI language of Analyst / WP, so that we can use console.log() to report progress in appropirate language in accord with the UI.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 4 Future Consideration

    Add option to prompt user before reloading data all data from button on the toolbar

    We work with some large data sets and sometimes mistakenly click on the reload data icon on the toolbar. Cancelling this action takes quite a bit of time. I'd like a configuration option which creates a secondary prompt after clicking the reload d...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    add capability to allow file I/O access

    Please add capability to allow file I/O under management. We have seen lots of use cases that utilize IronPythonscripts (possibly migrate to action mods in the future) to export data to csv, load data from csv, export pdf to file, etc.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add Connectivity to Canary Data Historian

    As an oil & gas client, we collect millions of data points from field/plant automation points through Cygnet and store data in the Canary data historian - a NoSQL timeseries database. Canary suggests using the ODBC driver to connect to Spotfir...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Request for adding a new scatter plot that allows the marker rectangle to be resized to any size

    At the request of a semiconductor manufacturer user, please implement a new visualization or additional scatter plot functionality so that the following scatter plots can be created. Specify the center position of the marker as in a scatter plot M...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    add Linq support to Action Mod API

    Please add Linq support to Action Mod API to increase productibility when manipulating IEnumerable objects.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Unlikely to implement
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