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    Import Template for Data Files

    When importing many files with the same format, it would be helpful for the "Import Settings" window to have an option to apply formatting corrections to all files queued as a template. Ideally, this template could be saved. An example would be wh...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Enable pass-through authentication on web player for data sources using Windows Authentication.

    For users who are connected to a database using windows authentication, when their report is published to the server, only those with access to the data source will be able to open the report. This way, the security is only implemented on the data...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Already exists

    Categoric custom color scheme import needs improvement - I need to choose the colors. And More.

    I have needed this feature for the last 10 years. When I import a set of colors that I have saved to library, there is no way to choose how the colors are mapped onto categoric values. Spotfire just takes them in order and it's always the same. Th...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add match columns dialog when replacing a single datasource within a larger joined datatable

    If you need to replace a single datasource that is joined to multiple other datasources in a data table there is no way to match your existing columns to the new datasource columns as the match column dialog is only available when there is a singl...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Smart Data Source Optimizer

    In many enterprise Spotfire deployments, reports connect to wide tables or views via JDBC or Infolinks, often bringing in 50–200 columns by default—even when only a fraction of these columns are actually used in visualizations, expressions, or scr...
    12 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Information Services 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 ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    show more information in data loading dialog

    Currently we can get below information in data loading dialog when opening analysis or loading data, \! filetype=Spotfire.DataFormat.Text; version=2.0; \! property=Name; category=Column; type=String; \! property=DataType; category=Column; type=S...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Set the dimension to be used as a measure in the Essbase Connector

    Following this idea: https://ideas.tibco.com/ideas/TS-I-5554 It would be useful to be able to set the dimension to be used a measure, even though there is already account dimension found by Spotfire. in short, being able to define (already implem...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    can combo chart bars be stackable?

    I really need to have a stacked bar chart in the combo chart. I can increase the dimensionality of the visualization. I don't see a technical hurdle here.
    12 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 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
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