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    Enable Data Connection Management from Action Mods

    Extend the Mod API to allow Action Mods to interact with Spotfire’s data layer, specifically to create, modify, or trigger data connections. Currently, Action Mods cannot: Create new data connections (e.g., databases, APIs, local files) Modify...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add Document Properties to a Text Area via an Action Mod

    Currently, it is not possible to create a Text Area and embed Document Properties or other objects directly through an Action Mod. While it is possible to: create and edit Text Areas, and create or modify Document Properties via the mod, the...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    drag and drop actionlog.log into spotfire then automatically recognize column structure

    Please allow to drag and drop actionlog.log into spotfire then automatically recognize column structure, in order to analyze the action log from files that are included in the GTB. This actionlog.log file is originally located under spotfire serve...
    21 days ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 To be Reviewed

    Support OAuth 2.0 Authentication for Spotfire Copilot Connections

    Description of the Idea We would like to request native support for OAuth 2.0 authentication when users interact with Spotfire Copilot. Ideally, when a user opens the Copilot Panel or attempts to send their first chat message, Spotfire should prom...
    8 months ago in Spotfire 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...
    over 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
    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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