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    Add support for custom MDX queries towards cubes

    Sometimes customers want to define their own MDX to either bring in data into Spotfire or work in-database.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Allow triggering a customTool with prompt from IronPython on the web player

    Currently a custom tool can be called from an IP script on the web player. However, prompting is simply ignored. Please implement an API that enables this scenario.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    seamlessly Zooming in/out of data - using 'layers' in general charts

    Take an easy example: you are displaying a Bubble chart that aggregates some data on some categories. 'Zooming in' (e.g. via mouse scrolling) would mean that going into detail for that category in focus would show all the data points behind that c...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Scheduling & Routing - See Load Status for File Rules

    It would be very useful to show the load status for each file rule alongside the "Execution" datetime (that shows the last run datetime for the rule) on the "Overview" page of "Scheduling & Routing".This is useful because if the Web Player ins...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    Mobile: add an additional password r fingerprint for accessing the mobile app

    All the data on the app is only protected by the 4 digits pin code of the IOS device. This is not compliant to the strict security rules of AkzoNobel. Will it be possible to develop an additional password (with about 8 positions and different sign...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Mobile 0 Future Consideration

    Add 'sourceURL' to JavaScript scripts in text areas

    I regularly debug JavaScript that has been added to a text area. A useful tool is the ability to add '//# sourceURL=xxxxx' at the end of the script so that the browser debug tools can show the script in the sources tab. It would be great if Spotfi...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Support AWS S3 for Spotfire library import/export path

    Currently Spotfire config tool provides only options for configuring Library import/export path for windows local folder or a file share path. Given the instances are not domain joined, can't configure a central file location for all spotfire serv...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Create a 'List box' property control with expression within a text area using a table apart from the default table

    While working in the Property control dialog, select the property and set 'Set property value through' to 'Expressions'. However, when you attempt to Edit the Expression, only the column names from the default table are visible but not other tables.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Another problem with data loading in 10.3 - defaults to add rows to table when tables are different!

    I load a table into 10.3 from xlsx file. I load the same table, again, but in the xlsx load dialog, I remove the final two columns from the load by unchecking their checkbox in the xlsx load dialog. Spotfire tries to add rows to the existing table...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to use custom IDEs with integrated support for the Spotfire API

    It would be great to develop IronPython code for Spotfire reports in another IDE (for instance Visual Studio Code) and retain the ability to reference Spotfire visualization elements (e.g. a table, scatterplot, or visualization title)
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration
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