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    Clear retained data when exiting (closing) the screen

    Customer requested for this idea. There is no event handler for closing DXP. For example, if users want to initialize the system immediately after startup, they can add flexible functionality by embedding python codes in a process called Init (eve...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Hidden Pages Permissions

    We would like to have the ability to control more granularly the permissions on Hidden Pages. At the moment, a Developer licenses user can see all Hidden Pages, but this is not specific enough. Controlling visibility permission on Hidden Pages by ...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Open session commands (pre post statements) for data connections

    We have many data sources that implement row level security using features such as Oracle’s VPD. This relies on the ability for Spotfire to provide the end user identity whenever running SQL on the database - which is easily achieved using the Ope...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 6 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst startup time issue

    Spotfire Analyst should open in 5 to 10 seconds; however, even if we store the credentials and production area, it takes a little longer to load the modules and so on. It may take some time the first time, but every time the user loads it takes to...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Connection Map

    Having the ability to create connection map like in the attached picture would be awesome to visualize flows and distances
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    capture image of entire page/tab and send an E-email via Automation services

    currently we can only select the respective visualization and send it in the Automation services, customers are asking to provide the screenshot of entire page instead of each visualization
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Disable "Identify origin of rows" option by default

    Hello, When adding rows to a data table In the "Settings for added rows" menu, there is the option to "identify origin of rows", which is switched on by default. This creates a new column of type string, that includes the origin. However, the stri...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Cross Tables with Horizontal Axis and standalone columns

    Cross tables are of course a very important visualization type in spotfire. And the horizontal axis is a very useful component of it. The difficulty is, that you cannot have both independent columns and columns associated with the horizontal axis....
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Kill existing Data Source connection to the database.

    Sometimes the existing data source connection (say A)to the database hangs and no more new connections are established until the old connections are released. Though this can be increased(max connections) at data source level, a) It will not cl...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Already exists

    restrict the use of Spotfire to only those who have a license

    The customer would like to restrict the use of Spotfire to only those who have a license, for example by entering a license key at the time of installation. License here refers to Consumer/BusinessAuthor/Analyst license. Currently, If a Spotfire a...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire 3 Future Consideration
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