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    Add support for ARRAY data type, as in postgres or greenplum

    Our users are accessing postgres and greenplum databases which have tables making use of the ARRAY data type (modifier), typically on character varying and double precision basic data types. Out users ask if there is any method or function to inde...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / sql support 0 Future Consideration

    Font support for Mods

    There should be a Mods API to enable the developer to support the Fonts configuration for Visualization Mods so that it feels just as like native visualizations for the end user.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Remove 'Prepared Reports' via Spotfire API

    Create ability to remove prepared reports with the Spotfire API. Right now, I believe only viewing a list of existing reports and exporting existing reports is possible.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add ability to specify column data types when importing programmatically from Excel.

    I am currently running a script which will replace data tables with excel sheets through a simple file explorer interface. However I am noticing that Spotfire is automatically guessing the data type of a column based on the first n rows of data im...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Gauge chart with reference value

    Today we can only show one value in the gauge chart. This type of visualization is frequently used to display a value, but also a reference value. Usually displayed as a line in the gauge area. The idea is to implement a way to define a second val...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization 0 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.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add API access to allow updating the width of scale labels using python.

    This property is not currently exposed for use by python scripts. We have several use cases on our dashboards where we will toggle a visual between various reports using a python script (and it must be via python since we are doing things like cha...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    expose API to write log to user action log

    Customer would like to write log to user action log, in order to record usage and actions user has performed on a custom extension. Please expose API to do so if possible. Thanks.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

    I would like the "Edit">"Edit in WebUI" menu in Studio to open the Web UI flow.

    When I select a flow created in WebUI from TDV Studio and click "Edit in WebUI" on the menu bar, only the top page of WebUI opens, but not the selected flow. Could you please change the specification so that the selected flow opens? If it is diffi...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data catalog / metadata 0 Future Consideration

    Allow a Library Group to trust unsigned mods (TIBCO Cloud)

    On TIBCO Cloud, give administrators and/or some specified library group the ability to trust unsigned mods.This would provide Enterprise users the flexibility of preventing users from authorizing something potentially malicious, as well as remove ...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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