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    Excel file(xls/xlsx,etc) Import API

    Customer wants custom tool to import multiple excel files at once. To create a tool to do this, reading excel file/sheet is required, which requires basically microsoft's office driver. On combination of 64bit OS + 32bit office driver, a 32bit pro...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    add API to export data to csv and make the result file downloadable for consumer

    Please add API to export data(from datatable or table plot, cross table) to csv/tsv and make the result file downloadable for consumer. Current API for exporting can only write exported file to web player server's path.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to customize context menu for a mod

    I'm currently using popouts in multiple mods to let users change the settings of those mods (e.g. the shapes of nodes in a network graph mod, or enabling / disabling UI controls in a 'filter panel' mod). To display those popouts I'm currently usin...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Freeze rows in Table Visualization

    A table visualization is often used for comparing all table rows to a few special reference rows. It would be valuable if it was possible to ensure that the reference rows are always present in the table, preferably at top of the table, no matter ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    API for creating Information Services data sources

    Currently it is possible to update Information Services data sources using API (https://docs.tibco.com/pub/sfire_dev/area/doc/api/TIB_sfire_server_WebServices_API_Reference/com/spotfire/ws/pub/package-summary.html). It would be useful to also be a...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Allow consumer to change color

    We need to allow consumers to change colors in a plot. A wafer map may represent more than 50 types of defects and sometimes there is not enough distinctive colors to depict them in a plot. Consumers need a way to change the coloring so that they ...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Show straight line fit labels in the color of the related line (currently all black)

    If you add e.g. a straight line fit with one line per color to a scatter plot and want to display say the curve expression with values as a label this will be multiple labels, all in black, and it is hard to tell which label belongs to which line....
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Automate Summary Table > Cross Table that preserves configuration

    I believe that any Summary Table can also be expressed as a Cross Table. When I switch visualizations from a summary to cross table, I lose all the configuration that I set up. That should not happen.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Folder browser dialog running in web browser

    It is useful because users can select a folder to export with IronPython without installing API on the server. Now if you use the FolderBrowserDialog() in Spotfire Analyst (Windows) it works, while in Spotfire web client does not work. It reports ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Export 0 Unlikely to implement

    Style controls in Spotfire visualization mods

    Some visualization mods such as the Animated Bubble Chart visualization shows additional controls in the visualization area. It would be good if it was possible to allow the user to control the styling of these controls using the Spotfire visualiz...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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