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    Multiple Result windows for SQL Scratchpad

    SQL Scratchpad is used a lot for data validations. Having the option of creating multiple "Result" panels would help to compare the dat abetween multiple queries.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 0 Future Consideration

    Sort categorical legend groups (color, symbol, etc.) by any column statistic & add sparklines to legend for that statistic

    There are frequent requests to sort color-by legend groups by a statistic (often count, sum, avg) for some data column shown on that graph. I suggest to generalize this by making it possible to sort any categorical legend group (color, symbol) by ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Consistent Updates for adapters of major DBMS versions

    Commit to adding support for new versions of the popular RDBMS within 6 months or the next service pack from their release. The major vendors should be supported, these are Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Gather native stats from database platforms that support it

    Currently, TDV calculates stats manually from analyzing the data. Where possible we should gather stats from database platforms that support it.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow configurable default numbers of bins for histograms

    We'd like to recommend making the default number of bins configurable for histograms. We'd like users to be able to set their own preferences. We get asked about this a lot by users. Most of the time they find the default number of bins too small....
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add full support for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (DW) as a data source

    Provide support for Azure SQL DW as a data source. Caching and data ship are out of scope initially. Please indicate in the comments if that is desired.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Support for multiple tenants within the server

    Allow the server to support multiple separate tenants within one cluster. A tenant would include security users/groups, security policies, cache policies, data sources, shared resources and published interfaces comletely isolated from other tenant...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 1 Future Consideration

    Lines and Curves > Label and Tooltip...>Value (y) > Format...

    I would like to be able have this as part of the API so I can write an IronPython script to change the format between number and percentage based on a drop-down property.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Expand the available columns for "Lines and Curves"

    The lines and curves feature for some visualizations can be improved by allowing other columns (not just the one mapped to the x-axis) of the same data type to be used in computing / aggregating a result. Much like the concept of layers for GIS sy...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add Map Chart Ratio settings in the API

    Be able to feed the map chart ratio settings through the Spotfire API. Required for dynamic wafer maps.
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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