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    API: Set starting folder for LibraryBrowserDialog

    I've confirmed the following with the support team: There is currently no way to set the starting folder when opening the LibraryBrowserDialog via python. I can set the SelectedItem property, but if I set this to a folder in the library, that fold...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to download cs_server.log file from DV Manager

    Often times I work as an administrator on a DV server hosted on infrastructure I don't have access to. For troubleshooting purposes it would be very useful to be able to download the cs_server.log file from the DV Manager web interface. This allow...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / monitoring 0 Future Consideration

    Be able to set default values for filters without coding

    In many cases, I would like to set default filters, and there is no out of the box way to do it, it requires some code that my client (and I) want to avoid. for exemple, I need to show by default only the open tickets, but don't want to prevent en...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Terminating python script while it is running

    There a lot of useful functions that are missing when working with python scripts. For example being able to terminate a python script while it is running. There are many ways of adding this into the script such as having the script open a new win...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Access miniatures in text areas via the API

    Sometimes the need arises to manipulate a text area using IronPython to change specific parts of the text area. However, when changing the html content of a text area using IronPython you often destroy the Spotfire dynamic contents (calculated v...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Collate pages of a Multipage PDF Report Export

    When using the repeat over filtered values function in an the PDF exports for a multiple tab export the default export loops over the filter for page one and then repeats this process for page two and so on. It would be helpful if you could add th...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Export 3 Already exists

    Coloring Class Apply() missing expected parameter

    Scenario In. dxp, users may apply a colouring scheme of a visualization to another per this guide (https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire/6.5.0/doc/html/color/color_applying_a_color_scheme_to_another_visualization.htm). Doing so provides users an opt...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to adjust width and height of a visual through API (using python)

    Our dashboards have a large number of pages. Each page has the same textarea. It would be great to be able to set the width of these through an API call. Same for panels (e.g. make all filter panels same width on each page when showing)
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Natively recognize spatial geometry from Snowflake for Map Charts

    With the snowflake data connector, it would be nice if the Map Chat visualization would natively read and recognize the geometry stored in the spatial table. This would eliminate the need to create all the additional columns spotfire requires as w...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Visualization 0 Planning to implement

    Create new filtering scheme

    Once user sets a group of filters, an option to 'set current filters as new filtering scheme' would save a lot of time and effort in creating multiple filter schemes. Some of this can be achieved with bookmarks but users want to create multiple fi...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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