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    Surface Python warnings without having to enable debugging

    I think it would be very helpful for developing data functions if we could surface warnings without involving the debugging feature. Sometimes for instance there is a call to an API and that call may fail; one way of designing the code would be to...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Format (Color by) legend number type for custom expressions

    If we were to have a custom expression for the Value (Y) axis and Color by such as SUM(Profit)/SUM(Revenue) and both profit and revenue were in dollars then the Y-axis can be formatted to a Percentage. But the same cannot be done for color by lege...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Can library search show the path to the file in 10.3 Web Player, like the Analyst client does???

    Need to have this parity. In our world, there can be multiple files having the same name - things get copies and people work on their own versions without changing the file name. Impossible to differentiate from the multiple copies when searching ...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Library 4 Future Consideration

    I want to be able to render a column as image and see the changes in the png file presented in the dashboard

    We have a dashboard that shows the departments agenda. Each day, a new version is saved to a shared network drive and reloaded into a Spotfire dashboard. The data column is rendered as this agenda.png. But the dashboard doesn't pick up the daily c...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 7 Already exists

    Allow option to append to File Version History on .dxp Import

    h6. Request Add option to append in conflict-resolution-mode parameter of import-library-content CLI command, in order to retain existing File Version History. h6. Background When importing .dxp across different servers - e.g., promoting from a DE...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    SSL installation

    It will be usefull if during installation process we can specify the SSL certify path and/or enable SSL settings.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Store all server side logging in system language rather than user language

    Log everything on the server side (including Nodes, Servers and Action logs) in the system language rather than the end user's language. Sometimes I'm troubleshooting problems for users in (e.g.) China and it's rather hard given that the log ent...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 3 Future Consideration

    Use of Parameters in connectors

    The parameters can only be called in personalized queries. Could they be called through the user interface ?
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Recommendations available in the Create Details Visualization area

    So much of the uniqueness of Spotfire comes from having a single pane of glass from which the user can manage multiple visualizations connected to multiple data tables. I would like to have Recommendations extended to work with a key part of this,...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / AI / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Join Table where Empty Values are Treated as Wildcards

    When joining tables in Spotfire, add an option where empty values are treated as wildcards. There's the option for "Treat empty values as equal" but this would only return the case if both tables had empty values for the matched field. If the valu...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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