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    Connectors Load Type Visibility

    Show whether in memory or in database when creating connection as you often don't realise it defaults to in-database. Change default to in-memory or allow it to be configurable in options or administration manager.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Date Format on Axes

    The ability to input the date display type similar to Excel format codes (e.g., YYYY, YY-MMM, etc.) – without overriding / depending on the underlying column format
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    SVG in Buttons

    Allow SVG images in buttons to create nice menus.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Choose the default data type when importing Excel files

    It would be useful to have a default data type setting when importing Excel files. This would prevent the user from having to select a certain type for each column if they wanted them all to be the same. For example, if a user wants all of the col...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    add "Rename" to the context menu of "Views in Connections" dialog

    Please add "Rename" to the context menu of table list in the "Views in Connections" dialog. See attached screenshot. Some may not notice that single click can rename a table.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement

    Default value for optional parameters in data functions

    When an optional parameter is used, I have to test in the data function whether the parameter is set using is.null() and assign it a default value. e.g. if(is.null(optPar)) {optPar = "something} because otherwise the code usually fails because you...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Webplayer does not have data relationship function

    In Spotfire client, if customer go to "Tools" he can find " Data Relationship" option. But, webplayer does not have data relationship function. We'd like to have the ability to do Data Relationship using webplayer. Also enable to edit data relatio...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to have the disk cache used after a Web Player restart even if it is older than the last scheduled update (but within max age setting)

    Currently (in 7.8) when the Spotfire Nodemanager service is restarted, the web player will attempt to reload all scheduled updates that are written to disk cache. There is one exception, scheduled updates that were in progress during a reset will ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Choose own default in Radio Button Filters/Ignore warnings options

    When you use a radio button filter within your dashboard and you deselect "Include (All) as Option" you get a warning "One or more filters could not be reset" (see picture) It would be nice if it's possible to create an option to ignore the warnin...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 1 Future Consideration

    Validate data sources from a report.

    It would be helpful to validate that all data sources are accessible for a report. If an information link, or network shared file gets removed, the report might only indicate a problem when updating data, but not be very clear when it does. Being ...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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