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    Provide API to retrieve information link details (SQL)

    Major data lineage tools (Informatica, ERwin) support scanning all BI tools such QlikView, Tableau, SAP, Cognos, but do not support Spotfire!! the stated reason from multiple vendor is Spotfire does not provide API to retrieve information link det...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Dashboard layout should support snapping to grid or orientation lines

    when there are many widgets in a dashboard, it is really hard to keep them all arranged in a nice manner. e.g. have small widgets left and right and a bigger one in the middle - the user ends up in using a physical ruler holding to the screen to b...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Application Profiler - Support for Configuration Blocks

    It's currently not possible to pass a configuration block to open a report using Application Profiler, an acknowledged limitation that would be useful to address. It means that those reports that require parameters to be passed can't be analyzed u...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Need ability to restrict the "Find" option available in the Spotfire 10.3 version to specific pages of a report.

    Hi, With Spotfire 10.3 version, we have got a new "find" option to perform various searches in the spotfire report UI. However this find option is currently applicable to all the pages of a spotfire report and we are looking for options to restric...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 6 Future Consideration

    Adding an "Uncheck All" (for columns) box when adding a Data Table

    Having an option to uncheck all boxes in the "Excel Import Settings" Wizard, when loading a table or file into spotfire, would save lots of time instead of having to manually uncheck all the columns you do not want included. Thank you.
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Button to switch from copied table to original table in data canvas

    In data canvas i want to switch to the table which is copied in another table via a simple button. In big data models with a lot of tables you can switch easier to the table which is in the acutall shown table just copied / linked.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Change (Empty) in axis values of cross table

    When a value for a column on the axis of a cross table is missing, "(Empty)" is displayed. This looks awful. It should be possible to display those entries as empty cells. It can be done by using something like sn([axis column], "") for strings or...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Routing to multiple web player nodes

    In our production environment we have multiple web player nodes each with two instances. We have a number of critical reports that we run as a scheduled update where we select 2 in the 'number of instances' dropdown. The issue with default routing...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 2 Future Consideration

    Don't deprecate the export/import automation services tasks

    The "export library items" and "import library items" automation services tasks have been deprecated as the server configuration command line has been updated to include similar features. We make use of automation services tasks within scripts tha...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 2 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Cloud - Browser session timeout

    In the documentation I found different types of timeouts configurable on the on-prem version, but nothing regarding the Cloud version.I suggest to implement the possibility to set timeouts for Spotfire cloud browser sessions
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Unlikely to implement
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