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    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

    Check data (during load) for quality and changes in column values

    Users appreciate Spotfire’s ability to match column name changes during data reloading. This ideas proposes the ability for Spotfire to check data (during load) for quality and changes in column values (especially when metadata changes or when dat...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Want connection capability for .asc files

    .asc files are basically csv files, but the Spotfire software cannot directly connect to these. We would find business value in being able to directly connect to these.
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Manual setting of primary key column (Impala, DB2, etc)

    When using external data, detail visualisations need a primary key in the datasource for markings to be applied. In case of views or custom queries, the resultset has no primary key defined on the database level. Would be great when we could selec...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 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

    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

    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...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Formating Options for Markers Fill and Outline (Colors, Transparency, Dash Type, Width)

    Dear all, There are cases were we want to format the markers of a visualization by setting the fill color white and choosing a color only for the outline of the marker. Just like we do in PowerPoint, we might also want to set the transparency, d...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    need storage persist option for replacing data tables

    Whenever I replace a data table the storage method always resets to "always new data". Can the previous setting be preserved across replacement? It's extra step to reset to the previous setting (if I can recall what it was), and is quite annoying....
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    export visualization configuration to text file

    Customer want to have tha ablity to export all visualization configuration, e.g. data settings / axis settings / lines and curves etc, to text file, in order to describe it in design document, as well as compare two visualizations.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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