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    Please add a progress bar on the Spotfire Analyst client when downloading updates

    It would be useful to have a progress bar when downloading updates so that users can see if any data is actually being downloaded. On many occasions there have been large updates which give the false impression that the update process is dead whic...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    measure how long it takes to render a visualization

    Customer want to have the capability to measure how long it takes to render a visualization, e.g. (1) OOTB (diagnostics information, etc) (2) from log file (3) using Spotfire API (from IronPython script or C# custom module)
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Lines and Curves to use Column Matches

    See attached file. We have an ongoing issue where an (Empty) value in a Data Table Relation does not allow us to plot lines, while this exact same function works for custom expressions. The reason I got from support is basted below. This would be ...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Setting for Case sensitivity

    Currently Spotifire is Case Sensitive which makes aggregations at certain level harder to manage. While you can do all sorts of string manipulation it would be nice to have a setting to turn on/off case sensitivity. For example , if you aggregate ...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Support for SQLite databases

    SQLite is the most popular database and an awesome (free) technology for quick prototyping. It is more stable than csv files, more scaleable than XLSX sheets and more flexible than many Big Data solutions. Allowing proper interfacing with SQLite d...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Disable toubletap to maximize Visualizations in Spotfire App

    We would like to disable the feature to double tap a visualization to maximize it on the screen that was introduced in 7.12. This happens quite frequently by accident It shows not only visualizations but also Test areas like the page header or but...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Option to remove extra 'Marked at' calculated column with Recommendations based on marked data

    When 'Recommendations based on marked data' is used, it generates a new column 'Marked hh:mm:ss AM/PM'. It'd be great if there is an option to not generate this new column.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    Provide command-line utilities to handle web player service instance

    Provide command-line utilities to handle web player service instance with below functions; 1. Check status (alive or dead) of named web player instance in named node. 2. Stop named web player instance in named node. 3. Start named web player insta...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Separate the StdDev function/aggregation like Excel function

    Hello, This is Nagwon Jeong. I would like to suggest one function/aggregation. In Excel, there are STDEV.P, STDEV.S, STDEVA, and STDEVPA functions to obtain the standard deviation. And the function/aggregation to get the standard deviation in ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    Gauge chart with reference value

    Today we can only show one value in the gauge chart. This type of visualization is frequently used to display a value, but also a reference value. Usually displayed as a line in the gauge area. The idea is to implement a way to define a second val...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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