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    Natural sort order library items

    I have on same folder same file name and end it as 1, 2, 3, etc, but when I reach 10, its after 1 instead after 9... it create a mess. It also have the same issue with special caracters (non english) like spanish accent. It should be able to do ...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Matrix visualization similar to a trellised Scatter Plot

    Creating a visualization similar to a trellised scatter plot which would have its rows and columns in the form of a matrix of (N xN).For example: if there are 4 columns namely A, B, C, and D, then a 4 x 4 matrix type visualization for a scatter pl...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Support Synonyms in Spotfire

    Synonyms have been around since 2005 for SQL Server. Per support, synonyms are not available in Spotfire Analyst due to "issue/lack of feature" in the MSSQL JDBC driver. You can find many posts on this issue online, a couple of them are these: ht...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

    More color scheme choices please

    Spotfire offers a paltry number of color schemes in the color dialog. 2 multi, and blue, gray and green. There are no decent accessible categorical schemes (eg red-green colorblind sensitive). No divergent color schemes. Tableau rocks all over this.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Enable Custom SOQL for the SalesForce connector

    The current connector (7.10) only allows 2K rows from SFDC reports. In order to get around this, one must execute custom SOQL (SFDC SQL). The custom SQL is grayed-out for this connector. Importing entire SFDC tables is not an option; for large com...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 3 Future Consideration

    support to load data from csv/txt/excel etc files via FTP protocol

    One of our customers would like to have the ability to load data from csv/txt/excel etc files via FTP protocol.
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    API to create kmeans clustering calculation

    Customer would like to use Python to create kmeans clustering calculation so it would be very helpful if related API is made publicly available.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Custom Aggregation Methods for related tables with something similar Group By functionality in SQL

    With the ability to relate the tables there should also be the ability to customize the aggregations. We have several referential tables which we have a one to many relationship between them however we only want to have the aggregation affect the ...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Support all types of columns through the JavaScript mashup getDistinctValues method

    The getDistinctValues method can through an API error for certain types of columns (dates, hierarchies, booleans, long integers). This request is to support returning all types of data through this API.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add method to the JavaScript mashup API to check Spotfire version

    I'm working on Selenium based tests for Spotfire reports. Some tests need to vary depending on the Spotfire version (e.g. clicking on the export menu option is different in 10.x versus 7.x). It would help if there were a supported API to check wha...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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