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Add additional information to Information Link prompts

It would be great if you could add instructions to prompts presented via Information Links. At the moment, all a user gets to see is the database column name when presented with a prompt choice. It would be great if, in the Information Designer, w...
about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 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 ...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions Future Consideration

Pre-populate data table column descriptions from data catalog

Spotfire 12.4 introduced a new feature allowing authors to apply descriptions to data table columns manually in the data analysis flyout. While this is great, and can be a tool for documenting projects, the fact that you have to do this in each in...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management Future Consideration

Create and edit data functions in the Spotfire web client

I need to be able to create new data functions and use and edit existing ones in Spotfire Business Author
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions Future Consideration

New Folder Permission (Read Only)

Currently there are 4 types of access: (Access, Read, Modify, Full Control). However, what we're finding is that when users have Read access, what this really means is that a user has the traditional "Read + Execute" as most file systems would def...
about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library Future Consideration

Resize "Elements" box in Information Designer

In the Information Designer, when creating a new Information Link, it would be nice if the Elements box allowed more than 7 visible items. Ideally, the window could be grown to consume the available space. This would simplify resorting the list.
about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services Future Consideration

export visualization configuration to text file

Customer want to have tha ablity to export all visualization configuration, e.g. data settings / axis settings / lines and curves etc, to text file, in order to describe it in design document, as well as compare two visualizations.
about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

PDF Multiple DXP Files

We are trying to figure out a solution to create one pdf file across several DXPs (reports). For example, Report A has 3 tabs and Report B has 2 tabs. I would like for there to be an option to export both Report A and Report B to get a total of 5 ...
almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export Future Consideration

Expand the ExportDataToLibrary API to include the options available in the UI

When exporting data to the library through the UI you have the option to apply filtering or marking. When using the API these options don't exist - you can simply save all data from the table.
about 9 years ago in Spotfire / API Future Consideration

Adding Data from multiple tabs in excel at one time

There are instances where you receive daily details on each tab of excel which runs into 30 tabs. So the data input should be designed in such a way where we can input all the details at one time rather than inputting the data 30 times as all the ...
about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration
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