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    Easy way to inventory licenses for multiple servers

    This idea is requested by a current Spotfire customer. Multiple servers make it difficult to inventory licenses. Currently, each server goes in and exports license files, collects them, and aggregates them. Hope this can be improved.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Needs Info

    We want to open another dxp using IronPython

    This idea is requested by a Spotfire customer. Users want to start another dxp, but they can't access the URL from IronPython. Currently, this is achieved by writing dxp links in the html area.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    Clear retained data when exiting (closing) the screen

    Customer requested for this idea. There is no event handler for closing DXP. For example, if users want to initialize the system immediately after startup, they can add flexible functionality by embedding python codes in a process called Init (eve...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Horizontal statistics table in box plot

    Following this idea which has been implemented: https://ideas.spotfire.com/ideas/ALP-I-25 I want to request having the statistics table being able to rotate horizontally as well. Similar to other lables in the box plot.
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Be able to perform on-the-fly datum transformations when adding map layers with different CRS

    By default, Spotfire works in WGS84 (World Mercator). A lot of data exists in different datums and projections but Spotfire has no capacity to be able to simultaneously apply datum transformations so that the layers spatially align. This is a seri...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    API to read Min and Max values for Y-axis when values are not set

    Referring to https://community.tibco.com/wiki/how-read-and-set-values-axis-range-multiple-scales-mode-tibco-spotfire-using-ironpython it is not possible to fetch the values if the Min and Max fields are empty / displaying the grayed out text 'Auto...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    Non-adjacent multiple selection on a mobile touch device

    Context: working from a mobile device. This option would help to perform multiple selection, as there's no CTRL button to press..The workaround of the usage of lasso selection works with some visualizations (for example barchart) but not with othe...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Mobile 0 Future Consideration

    restrict the use of Spotfire to only those who have a license

    The customer would like to restrict the use of Spotfire to only those who have a license, for example by entering a license key at the time of installation. License here refers to Consumer/BusinessAuthor/Analyst license. Currently, If a Spotfire a...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Server - Avoid false positive when new server configuration is uploaded to the database

    When a new Spotfire Server configuration is uploaded to the database, a WARNING message shows up under Nodes & Services -> Notifications, informing that the Server 'XXXX' must be restarted to use the latest configuration (see attached scree...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Likely to implement

    Can we hide the menu bar in web player?

    When a user opens a report, is it possible to hide the menu bar at the top of the screen? The user doesn't require it, it takes up screen real estate and often times users inquire about why various features have been enabled/disabled.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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