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Simplifying the Creation of Task Automation Scripts in Spotfire

This is more of a generalized request, but I just read up on the new Power Automate Visual for Microsoft Power BI, and I really think that Spotfire needs some improvements to match the simplicity delivered for a Business Analyst with Microsoft's i...
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

Import selected scripts from other file

Importing a script from another dxp is an important, time saving feature which I use regularly. However, I usually want to import a specific script from another dxp, not all of them. So I'd like to have the possiblity to import only selected scrip...
about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

Stepwise execution when developing data functions in R

Add the ability to run a R data function stepwise to make easier to develop and debug the script. During the stepwise execution It should be possible to inspect variables and do code changes or running commands to set variables. A workaround is to...
over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

Ability to call a Javascript function in TextArea2 from a javascript of TextArea1

For reusable javascript code. Sometime data in TextArea1 would affect the appearance of TextArea2 , thus the need to access TextArea2 script Also sometime order of execution of the script is important. TextArea1 script should be executed before Te...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

Increase maximum length for multi-line text prompts for properties

It could be argued that this is a bug (although not a very critical one!). Steps to reproduce: Create a text area. Add a multi-line property control with a string property. Paste >2MB of data into the textarea control. The data isn't entered i...
almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

A development mode which considers all scripts trusted until disabled

I am the author of an open source build utility called Spotless which allows live-reloading of Javascript in Spotfire while iterating on ideas. I would like to also live-reload the IronPython, and I already have the code written to do this. Due to...
about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

Read/Access the KPI Chart values using Ironpython?

The KPI chart allows you to compute calculations like that of other visualizations. It would be nice to be able to extract those calculated values using IronPython like it is possible in a Cross Table. This would defeat the purpose of using the KP...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

Provide Ironpython the ability to copy a Page or Visualization from one Document to another Document.

The scripting flexibility you provide is quite extensive. I set up scripts to do all the data manipulation work (bringing in tables, joins, renaming columns, deleting columns, etc.) This is very helpful because it manually takes a significant amou...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

Give a way to clear Javascript resources

When I'm developing JavaScript code, I try to make use of everything I can to monitor variables, troubleshoot errors, and perform test-use cases. Currently, when I use alert messages or post variables to JavaScript objects, they somehow get saved ...
about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 1 Will not implement

Visualization Properties

I think it would be useful to have properties tied to visualizations. In some cases, I need a run script to modify some visualizations in the pages. - I can use script parameters, but the script needs to be modified when I add a visualization (It ...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 1 Future Consideration