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    Choose which Spotfire Instance has the lock on the list

    At the moment I think the first instance of spotfire which is opened will lock the list collection. It would be useful if a Spotfire instance can grab the lock, the lists would then be locked for the other instances.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Lists 0 Future Consideration

    Allow y-axis scale adjustment for 100% stacked bar charts

    Often in 100% stacked bar charts the lower 50 or more % are not of interest (e.g. you have typically an 80-90% yield and want to zoom into the yield detractor reasons in the top 10-20% of the bars). Unfortunately SPOTFIRE does not allow adjusting ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Already exists

    API/Event when Spotfire crashes ...

    Sometimes Spotfire crashes and we need to track these crashes ... today it seems there is no event fired when such crash happens. It would be very useful to have an event fired when UnhandledException is thrown (thus crashing Spotifre). We can reg...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 6 Future Consideration

    API to know when Spotfire is fully started

    We need an API/Event to fire when Spotfire is fully loaded/started and all modules and custom modules loaded in memory.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Support Integration with Alation Data Catalog Tool

    My company is using Alation for Data Catalog, it would be great for Spotfire to retrieve field definitions from Alation API, so they could be exposed on Spotfire reports. That tool also does not support importing the Information Links and Report D...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Percentile() - allow different calculation types (as in TERR) for calculated columns

    TERR allows 3 discrete and 6 continuos calculation variants for quantile() which ends in different results. It can be controlled by optional 3rd parameter. Default value is 7. However expression language used for calculated columns only supports t...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    use value in document properties on filters

    We have many customer asking for this. Typically customer uses input field or drop down list to select a value, then he wants to use this value in filters. Currently filters can only by set by fixed values, customer wants to use values from docume...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Script/ shortcut-button to rebuild spotfire using data table properties "Source information" (can edit this table to remove old column etc.)

    this is to lessen re-creating file following the data table properties source information, currently using this as reference by re-creating a damage file, no data on table due to missing column reference file but really long to do, especially for ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Default save location of analysis file

    When saving analysis file, its default location in save window depends on its opening method as follows. a) File > Open Default folder is its saved location. b) Drag&Drop or double click analysis file Previous active folder (Last folder of ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Enhance / choose the geo-coding service used in map chart search

    There should be an option for analysts to use alternate address look-up tables / geo-coding services to search and limit geospatial address information displayed in map charts.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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