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Improve loading time of data from Excel

Loading bigger Excel files can be painfully slow. Try the following: Fill 50 columns, 50000 rows in Excel with random numbers. That should give an excel file around 50MB big. Add this as a data table. It takes around 40s to even open the "Open" di...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

Add a "Favourites" folder, and "recently visited" option to the Information Designer

This would be very useful if you use the Information Library a lot, and have complex folder structures (like me!!)...
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

Clear error messages ironpython scripts

Please improve the error messges for failed iron python scripts. For example when a script triggers another script or changes a document property that triggers another script, it is not clear in which script results in giving in an error.
almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

Easily copy ID of all library item types from library administration tool

I sometimes need the ID of library items. That's possible for analysis files, but not so simple for library data or folders. I suggest in the library administration tool to have another option when you right-click on any item to copy it's ID, just...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

please add logical function any() / all()

please add logical function any() / all() to calculate any(true,false,false) => true any(fale,false,false) => false all(true,true,true) => true all(true,true,false) => false Currently we can sum them and compare to the count to do the ...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

search bookmarks

Some customers have many bookmarks and they ask if it's possible to search them, so I created a simple script with a search bar as a work around.
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Bookmarks 0 Future Consideration

Data Streams: Ability to manage multiple data streams data sources for the same DXP/visualisation

Data streams caches will have a memory limit and so it may be necessary to manually partition the same type of data across multiple data streams instances that will have a different connection URL. We need a way to manage this within spotfire/data...
almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Streams 0 Future Consideration

Schedule Automation Services Jobs on my local computer

I have some automation services jobs I run regularly, and ideally would like to be able to automate on a schedule. I do not have access to scheduling jobs on the corporate server since this is managed by another team that are worried about overloa...
almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

More color scheme choices please

Spotfire offers a paltry number of color schemes in the color dialog. 2 multi, and blue, gray and green. There are no decent accessible categorical schemes (eg red-green colorblind sensitive). No divergent color schemes. Tableau rocks all over this.
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

Needs API to undock Custom Panel

Currently, there is no API available to achieve the popover(dock/undock) of custom panel. And have a custom Panel where the Pin icon that docks/undocks the panel is missing. So this request is to have the ability to add dock/undock icons to custom...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration