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    Better support of web services

    When you need to consume data from a web service in Spotfire there are different options like implementing a custom data source, develop an Iron Python script, use an R script on your Stats server or use something like Composite or Jboss Teiid tha...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration
    103 VOTE

    Allow changing grand total and subtotal names in cross tabs.

    Would like ability to change the name of the Grand Total/Subtotal columns and rows in a crosstab. Perhaps add a variable or expression to show what the subtotal is referring to, e.g. Subtotal Product.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Decouple Database Selection from Data Source

    When creating a Data Source, most Connectors currently include the selection of a Database and the Schema Browser shows just the Tables in the chosen Database. It would be preferable to just set the server cection details and then list all availab...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Don't execute data functions when required input data is empty

    Many data functions you want triggered from markings. However, when nothing is marked, empty inputs are sent to the DF which causes errors. So you have to create specific error handling code for TERR to detect # rows for input and send out empty d...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 4 Future Consideration

    Ability to disable storing data in the undostack to prevent continuous increase in memory consumption when data is refreshed

    Per request from the Support team (Case#02157929), I am creating this urgent feature request. The customer(s) are severely impacted by the continuous memory consumption when the open template (a dashboard) has automatic refresh every n minutes. At...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 5 Future Consideration
    106 VOTE

    Keep Colour schema when change the Colour dimension

    In any graph, If the dimension on colours section change, the Colour scheme will change with to the default one. I think it would be more correct if it the graph keep the same color scheme even if the dimension that manage the colour change. We s...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    Improve performance of query retrieving user authorization for more than 300% by removing order by statement

    We discovered a Spotfire query that retrieves user authorization, which has the highest cost and is used more than 400 times an hour on our system. It contains an "order by" statement. If this statement is removed it performs 300% faster. Although...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 7 Future Consideration

    Truncate cache buckets instead of delete

    Currently buckets have all their records deleted, and then the new records are inserted. In the database this means 2 write operations, and is a major cause of index fragmentation. Most databases allow you to truncate the table, which is only an a...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Planning to implement

    Limit system resource (CPU, memory, RAM, etc.) an analysis may consume

    Provide the ability to set maximum limits on the system resources (CPU, memory, RAM, etc.) that an analysis running on Spotfire Server may consume. This will prevent individual analyses from consuming all available resources and making the server ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    please expose API to export visualization to excel file

    please expose API to export visualization to excel file, aka utilize below functionality in IronPython script or Action Mods https://ideas.spotfire.com/ideas/SPF-I-42 SPOT-2150 14.0.0 Export tabular visualizations to Microsoft Excel with preserved...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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