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    Need ability to retrieve all columns in a table through information link (Select * from table) rather than adding individual columns to the information designer

    In most cases, we use all the columns from a table or view to be source for spotfire through an information link. Any new column addition in the back end table or any column data type modification will NOT automatically propagate to the informatio...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Enhance Limitation Document Property and HTML Text Area

    At the moment Document Property are limited to 64KB and HTML Area section is limited to 2 MB. As this is quite common to use Document Property to be able to execute Javascript scripts for data that are managed by Iron Python, this kind of limitati...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    API to detect if Spotfire is Idle

    Spotfire web client has an option to detect idle time and logout ... We are looking for a similar API for Spotfire professional client (Analyst). We want to configure idle time for the thick client so that if the client has been idle for certain a...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Unlikely to implement

    having logarithmic scale option and customized curve can be attached in Stock Chart Mod

    It should be very useful to have logarithmic scale for Stock Chart Mod, price such as crypto can change sharply and suggested to use logarithmic scale. Some customized curve such as filtered moving average can be added to the Stock Chart for anal...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Will not implement

    Copy all values in a table column

    Spotfire is great for iteratively filtering down to a subset of data. I often use the ability to use a table as details-on-demand. However one limitation is you can only copy a single cell value or the entire table. I often want to copy all values...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Bar chart label position for each section

    Label position of bar chart's sections are aligned center, but would you add option of "align top / center / bottom" ? This option is useful when exporting visuals to PPT/PDF, that are zoomed with zoom-slider. Please refer to the attached ppt.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Numeric equality issues when using a Single Real column

    When doing comparisons against a single real column, the static value entered is not auto cast to a single real. This results in rather odd behavior such as the value 1.1 in a single real column != the user entered value of 1.1 If for example. I h...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Insert Filter to Text Area is not user friendly when thousands of columns exist in the data set

    Inserting a Filter to Text Area can be quite cumbersome when having tables with several thousand columns.The Insert Filter Dialog Window has no search/filter function and also has a fix (not adjustable) size. When having a table with e.g. 5000 col...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Graphical table: allow configuration of headers (height and wrap text) and add freeze columns feature

    so that it is consistent with the table and cross tab vizs for heaven’s sake :)
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Node manager doesn't properly handle fail over for the scheduled updates and this needs to be updated

    Currently, if the a scheduled update rules fails on a rule is will keep trying to use that node to re-run the rule regardless of the reason it fails. It should go to the next node in this scenario instead since the next node could be able to handl...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 1 Future Consideration
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