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    Information Links to TDV Virtual Views migration

    Various Spotfire customers rely on 1000's of Information Links. Since IL's can't keep data external current investments in new and fast In Memory DB's (like SAP HANA) can't be leveraged fully. Moving away from IL's is a tedious task when there are...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Missing API for Graphical Table.CreateLayout

    We found out that we have APIs to programmatically scroll table plots, summary table and cross tables using API var table = visual.As<SummaryTable>();layout = table.CreateLayout(); But we do not have such API for Graphical tables. This is a ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Need special API from TIBCO which enables us to apply hierarchy column to our custom visualizations (like Adv. boxPlot))

    Hi supporter, Pls, refer to the attached image. User made a hierarchy column, but it's not able to be applied to advanced boxplot(but fine to boxplot). Thanks!
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Public API to check/uncheck the "Show notifications about mismatches" option

    When programmatically creating visualizations with two or more tables, it can be that the specified ColumnRelation(s) are enough to properly link the data but that not all columns involved in the visual are matched, i.e. the visual and tables are ...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    An idea to improve CustomVisualization loading performance

    So far, at least in WebPlayer, each time, when user switch back to our visualization from another page, all the HTTP content (js, css...) of the custom visual will be reloaded through GetResourceCore() API. The browser can't cache them as a normal...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Use `DataFunctions` API to control the Limited by > Filtered/Marked rows options

    #### Goal Use `DataFunctions` API to control the Limited by > Filtered/Marked rows options. #### Issue The [DataFunctions API](https://docs.tibco.com/pub/doc_remote/sfire_dev/area/doc/api/TIB_sfire-analyst_api/?topic=html/N_Spotfire_Dxp_Data_Da...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Already exists

    Move points on map with a click and drag

    Say you have a number of points on a map, in this case representing a hypothetical wellbore as an example. It would be amazing if you could click a point and move it in space. We’ve built a well planning app in spotfire and need the ability to mov...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    API & Examples for unit testing Spotfire extensions

    As a developer, I find very important being able to unit test the code I implement for extending the Spotfire functionality: new visualizations, tools, etc. The documentation that comes together with the SDK has good examples about the different w...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    API to set table dependencies

    SF10.10.x reloads/refreshes the data tables based on the table creation order. So the first created data table is the first one to be refreshed while the last created table is the last one to be refreshed. This sequential operation allowed us to c...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Mods API to tell what changed in the data view

    For performance reasons it could be beneficial to differentiate between color changes vs data or axes changes. Calculate the position of graphical elements may be quite compute intense. If you'd know that only the colors had changed the the posit...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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