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    Using Open source Octave as an alternative to Matlab

    I been working with a programing tool called Octave. The language is almost identical to basic Matlab. The discriminating difference is that Octave is open source and free. Octave offers similar performance efficiencies to Matlab.
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Auto Scroll table plot to always show first marked row in visible area

    Need an option to always show first marked row in a table plot. Currently, the marked rows may be in the invisible area of the table plot. Users have to manually scroll to find them ... providing an automatic scrolling would be great.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Sort the search results in "Analytics" view

    When searching for analyses in the new Analytics view in Spotfire X you get the search results in a random order and you are missing the ability to sort or filter the search results. That would be necessary to dig through the search results in a b...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Make it possible to copy multiple cell values from any table (without header or column information)

    We need assistance to be able to copy multiple cell values (from table, summary table etc.) without row and column header and paste it somewhere else (excel, notepad etc.). Currently when we copy rows from a table it copies rows and column header ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Delimiter options for Automation Services Data Export

    From within Automation Services, we can currenly only export to CSV using the Comma or Semi-Colon delimiter. Having more delimiter options would be incredibly useful for us - especially the ability to use the Pipe ( | ) delimiter.
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Make R package management robust

    At the moment the installed packages visible in Package Management are only the ones installed in individual user folders but the packages deployed via spk are not visible (to protect them from accidential deletion as per Case_ID:02077853). This c...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Enable mass rename of columns during the transform data process

    Multiple data tables are often joined using the "Add as columns to" option. Often, the data sets being appended have the same value column names (ex. $, $ YA, Units, Units YA) which results in the subsequent data value columns having ([%C (n)]) or...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Support Podman as Docker alternative for node manager on Linux to run TERR and Python Services

    Hey Tibco Team. To setup a node manager running TERR or Python Service on a Linux platform, Docker is at the moment the only supported option. Since we would like to use e.g. Podman as docker alternative, please consider also support this containe...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Use List Document Property in SQL "IN" Statement within Custom Expressions

    It would be useful to be able to pass a list type document property (e.g. "String List", "Date List", etc...) into a SQL "IN" statement in a custom expression or calculated column. This can then be used to provide input for options for consumer us...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 3 Future Consideration

    Scatter plot line connection only for selected columns on Y-axis

    In scatter plot line conneciton properties, lines are drawn for all columns on Y-axis. There is no option to choose line connection only for a particular column/columns out of group of columns on Y-axis. This is useful prticularly when plotting ra...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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