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    Data Source Configurable timeout setting

    In the Information Designer/Data Source, we would like to have a way to configure a data source timeout. We want more granularity to terminate connections if queries takes too long to execute from the application/client level. (Note that this is d...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 4 Future Consideration

    Option where Multiple Prompts should be displayed in a single screen

    By default user needs to go through all the Prompts step by step to get the data. Requirement is when multiple prompts are there in report all needs to be displayed in single page and one click is required after the data input/selection with all t...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Add option to define fixed size for a label in the form of image in a map chart marker layer

    Adding label as image might be useful in various usecases, unfortunately typically you would like to align the image with some other layer and its points. At the moment for labels in the form of image in a map chart marker layer there is only slid...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Consumers to Use List Functionality

    Grant the List feature set to the consumer license to be able to export marked items from one spotfire project and use those same marked list in another active session in a different project.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Lists 0 Future Consideration

    Package builder should support ability to deploy to server

    While not a frequent activity, it is convenient to build and deploy an SDK package to the server. This no longer works with 11.x and external auth.Previously we could connect to the TSS directly and use LDAP credentials even though we also had an ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Unlikely to implement

    Provide a global "Cancel" functionality (using a hot-key) within the Spotfire session

    We need a global "Cancel"/"Abort" functionality (using a hot-key like Esc or Ctrl-C) within the Spotfire session, to stop/kill the last operation/process/thread. In many occasions, users invoke (by mistake) an operation that takes a very long time...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 1 Future Consideration

    Show/hide cross table columns

    Ability to Hide / Unhide the column that we not required. Like in Excel. This works also when I have multiple Horizontal Column in the Cross Table.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Please add a progress bar on the Spotfire Analyst client when downloading updates

    It would be useful to have a progress bar when downloading updates so that users can see if any data is actually being downloaded. On many occasions there have been large updates which give the false impression that the update process is dead whic...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Lines and Curves to use Column Matches

    See attached file. We have an ongoing issue where an (Empty) value in a Data Table Relation does not allow us to plot lines, while this exact same function works for custom expressions. The reason I got from support is basted below. This would be ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Setting for Case sensitivity

    Currently Spotifire is Case Sensitive which makes aggregations at certain level harder to manage. While you can do all sorts of string manipulation it would be nice to have a setting to turn on/off case sensitivity. For example , if you aggregate ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration
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