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    Ability to disable storing data in the undostack to prevent continuous increase in memory consumption when data is refreshed

    Per request from the Support team (Case#02157929), I am creating this urgent feature request. The customer(s) are severely impacted by the continuous memory consumption when the open template (a dashboard) has automatic refresh every n minutes. At...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 5 Future Consideration

    Spotfire web data connector

    Spotfire should support loading data from web data sources. For example cloud drives and tables in web pages.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    High DPI support

    When using the Spotfire Analyst client on High DPI screens now it runs in high DPI compatibility mode: all pixels are scaled to larger pixels. Adding native high DPI support would allow the visual splendor of Spotfire to shine so much brighter. Wi...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Provide option to bypass the public CRAN_mirrors URLs in the TERR Tools package management tab

    Provide an option for a Spotfire Administrator to point the Spotfire Analyst desktop client's "Tools > TERR Tools > Package Management" dialog tab to the URL of a custom R package repository. This option would bypass the dialog's "CRAN packa...
    about 1 month ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 To be Reviewed
    102 VOTE

    Replace all Tooltips with jQuery qTip type look, feel and config

    Currently tooltips are difficult to use effectively in Spotfire BUT essential in value adding to the users experience. If you allowed a user to set up a tooltip with some base options like: hover-over : true/false; follow-mouse: true/false; style-...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration
    106 VOTE

    Search should be available in listbox property controls

    As the list box filters have the "(All)" option, the customer is using the list box property controls to work around this. The list box property control, on the other hand, does not include the search functionality which is required as they have a...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 2 Future Consideration

    Improve performance of query retrieving user authorization for more than 300% by removing order by statement

    We discovered a Spotfire query that retrieves user authorization, which has the highest cost and is used more than 400 times an hour on our system. It contains an "order by" statement. If this statement is removed it performs 300% faster. Although...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 7 Future Consideration
    100 VOTE

    Configurable sorting in cross table headers

    Currently cross tables are presented with a default sorting, as alphanumeric ascending in precedence of column/row positions. This default can now be adjusted to sort based on the results, but not on the values in the headings themselves. Cros...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    add option to configure fiscal year offset on application level for Analyst desktop

    Please add option to configure fiscal year offset on application level for Analyst desktop, so that it can be specified one place and apply to all dxp files. Currently one must change the appropriate document property in each dxp file to set this.
    about 1 month ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Re-organize Data Canvas Data Sources

    I wish to re-organize and/or color code the Data Table order in the Data Canvas to keep related data sources visually close to each other as a project is built out.
    9 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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