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    Allow labelling by multiple columns

    At the moment a data point in a Spotfire visualisation can only be labelled by a single column, so when working with chemical data you are limited to either a Structure OR an Identifier. A tooltip allows multiple columns, so can hover over a point...
    9 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Allow descriptions to be added to prompt filters

    It would be great, if when defining prompt filters in the Information Link, if you could add text providing additional information to the users at each prompt. This could be used to describe the data point, and the impact of the choices being ma...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Support for Standard Test Data Format (STDF) Files

    STDDF is a common file format used in the semiconductor industry.
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Planning to implement

    Learning Paths (Different Levels)

    It would be great to have a compilation of learning resources for different levels of Spotfire knowledge. Many people (not say everyone of us) that work with Spotfire have developed the knowledge empirically...with no official trainig Like a virtu...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Learning 1 Future Consideration

    More details in action log for Information Links

    The new(ish) action logging for data connections is excellent - we can easily see from a single record what type of database was used, the specific database, how long the query took and how much data was returned. Extracting similar data for Infor...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Add in the operator/function Between

    SQL has a Between option. Spotfire could also benefit from a Between. We would use Between in case statements, if statements, or as standalone logic. Today we write: If([Data] >=1 and [Data] <= 2,true,false) This could be updated to be:If(Be...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Excel file(xls/xlsx,etc) Import API

    Customer wants custom tool to import multiple excel files at once. To create a tool to do this, reading excel file/sheet is required, which requires basically microsoft's office driver. On combination of 64bit OS + 32bit office driver, a 32bit pro...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Export SBDF file to library for visualisations based on in-db connections

    You are not able to export data tables/ visualisations from DXP files as SBDF files that are connected to a database. Currently our DXP files are based on direct db connections. Having set up some summary tables in DXP files we would like to expor...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 3 Future Consideration

    add API to export data to csv and make the result file downloadable for consumer

    Please add API to export data(from datatable or table plot, cross table) to csv/tsv and make the result file downloadable for consumer. Current API for exporting can only write exported file to web player server's path.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to customize context menu for a mod

    I'm currently using popouts in multiple mods to let users change the settings of those mods (e.g. the shapes of nodes in a network graph mod, or enabling / disabling UI controls in a 'filter panel' mod). To display those popouts I'm currently usin...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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