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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...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Upgrade API for visualizations (e.g. move axis positions)

    The API allows toggling e.g. from scatter plot to bar chart (which is useful when e.g. sometimes you need to visualize the outcome of a classification and sometimes the one from a regression). However, different chart types sometimes need a differ...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add method in IronPython API to export visualization (as-is) to Excel

    Currently, the CreateDataWriter method is available to export to Excel (reference); however, this export strips any formatting in the underlying visualization - e.g., Table. Spotfire v14.x offers an in-UI feature to export visualizations, as-is (r...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API / Scripting 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

    A global API to force synchronous data-function execution

    The default behavior for data-functions is to run asynchronously. In some cases, we need to force the data functions in an analysis to run synchronously. We truly need a global flag that can be set via API to force all data functions in the analys...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Improve JS Mashup API

    Cannot get a full data table; can't explicitly call IronPython script - only through workaround; cannot extract individual visualisations from a DXP
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    PDF Reporting Public API

    The new PDF output of visualizations could be very useful if it was accessible via a public API. One can create prepared reports but those are too defined for most self-service scenarios. It would be very useful if there was a public API for creat...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Multiple language support in visualization mods

    It should be possible to have support for multiple languages in a visualization mod. The mod developer should be able to add text resources for multiple languages for UI texts used in the manifest or JavaScript code. It would be nice if existing p...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    allow to grant mod trust to groups

    To use mod in an isolated environment without internet access(Spotfire Server, Web Player, Analyst,etc), we have been trying to figure out the best solution to eliminate the prerequisite that each user much perform trust action on each mod used, o...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Increase or remove the limit for the number of x-axis values

    Currently the Area Chart can show at maximum 10000 values on the x-axis. This is too few for some data sets.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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