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    API Documentation Improvement

    So few examples; difficult for a new user to know which properties/methods are useful as there are many that are not. Triggers, events, custom nodes, property names all very difficult to understand. Community examples need more work
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Question API capability

    For bots and Alexa and similar. Ask questions of a DXP - web service API for querying data engine
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Expose XJitter & YJitter properties to IronPython MapChart Class

    For example government bodies may be required to obfuscate precise locations of events when presenting evidence. Exposing these properties would also allow analysts to easily modify mapchart marker locations via webplayer / pre-authored dashboards...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Already exists

    show data source's details in text area

    Customer would like to show data source's details in text area, especially for data loaded from information link, customer would like to show the values that user specified for a prompt. Please add functionality to do so, or reveal API so that it ...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add-on to API for colour scheme settings in Map Chart

    When applying a color scheme, it is applied using the option "Colors matched to values," by default and unfortunately there is no API to specify what color option/method to choose (as per advise from Tibco support engineer). The enhancement should...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    API provide a way to match columns when replacing data using DataTable.ReplaceData

    When I use DataTable.AddRows() to add rows to a data table, I can specify an AddRowsSettings to specify which columns to match even if they have different names. I want to do the same thing when calling DataTable.ReplaceData().
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    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 get number of read rows in DataRowReader

    DataRowReader allows us to know how many columns where loaded but does not have an API to know number of loaded rows. This is an important missing API that is critical to have. As a workaround, I had to wrap my DataRowReader with a custom DataRowR...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    mod's certificate is still considered valid after code signing certificate is revoked until Analyst/Web Player server is restarted

    Mod's certificate is still considered valid after code signing certificate is revoked until Analyst/Web Player server is restarted. Step to reproduce (1) use spotfire account to develop and sign a mod, save it to library, create visualization from...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Unlikely to implement

    add a visualization property page to show information about mod

    Please add a visualization property page to show information about mod used by the visualization, e.g. (1) mod's basic information (id, name, version, author,etc) (2) origin of mod (from dev server, local mod file, library, etc) this is very impor...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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