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    More control over gridlines in 3D scatter plot

    My customers are asking for more control over gridlines in 3D scatter plot. They want to see more minor gridlines to form a lattice and even control where these gridlines are drawn.
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Make dragging a visual to a new tab easier

    this is small, but powerful: when you want to drag a visual to a new tab, you have to create a new tab first and then drag the visual to that tab. Why not let the tab be automagically being created when you drag the visual on the '+' sign.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Support Synonyms in Spotfire

    Synonyms have been around since 2005 for SQL Server. Per support, synonyms are not available in Spotfire Analyst due to "issue/lack of feature" in the MSSQL JDBC driver. You can find many posts on this issue online, a couple of them are these: ht...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

    Enable Custom SOQL for the SalesForce connector

    The current connector (7.10) only allows 2K rows from SFDC reports. In order to get around this, one must execute custom SOQL (SFDC SQL). The custom SQL is grayed-out for this connector. Importing entire SFDC tables is not an option; for large com...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 3 Future Consideration

    API to create kmeans clustering calculation

    Customer would like to use Python to create kmeans clustering calculation so it would be very helpful if related API is made publicly available.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire client loader should renegotiate a full handshake with the server if it receives a malformed ticket.

    Currently it drops the connection. It would be far more elegant to renegotiate a full handshake.
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 3 Needs Info

    Custom Aggregation Methods for related tables with something similar Group By functionality in SQL

    With the ability to relate the tables there should also be the ability to customize the aggregations. We have several referential tables which we have a one to many relationship between them however we only want to have the aggregation affect the ...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Support all types of columns through the JavaScript mashup getDistinctValues method

    The getDistinctValues method can through an API error for certain types of columns (dates, hierarchies, booleans, long integers). This request is to support returning all types of data through this API.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add method to the JavaScript mashup API to check Spotfire version

    I'm working on Selenium based tests for Spotfire reports. Some tests need to vary depending on the Spotfire version (e.g. clicking on the export menu option is different in 10.x versus 7.x). It would help if there were a supported API to check wha...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add an aggregation method to find the Nth most common value

    MostCommon is a pretty useful aggregation method, for example when you have a large set of defective parts across different products and these are defective for different reasons and you want to see the most prominent error say per product. Very e...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration
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