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    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

    Data function management UI consistency

    Which UI to go to in order to do different things with data functions? Not clear/obvious currently. Many frustrations with these UI's. How is it clear that "Run" also registers? And then this isn't where I go afterwards to edit the data function
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire client opens 5 connections to database when using Oracle data connectors, and hold them till closing the client

    When we use a data connection to retrieve data from an Oracle database, the Spotfire client opens 5 connections to the database with each usage. Those connections remain open even after you close the template using File > Close. The only way to...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Server - Make the upgradetool.bat keep previous service parameters

    I would expect from an upgrade tool where an input on the previous installation folder is required, to copy over to the new Spotfire Server the settings from the previous installation. This is especially relevant for the JvmMs and JvmMx settings, ...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Static filters in in-database connectors (remove rows)

    It should be possible to filter out rows based on an expression as global filter attributes. E.g. CREATED date > sysdate-365 or ROW_NUM<1000001 (Useful when debugging queries that have long run time to load a data subset
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    add API to get the data type of a document property in action mod

    We want to get the data type of a document property, e.g. for (const p of document.Properties) { // get the data type of p here } const p = document.Properties.Get("my-property-name"); // or get the data type of p here The name of the property is ...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Make memory consumption of visualizations visible

    When working with "big data" it is important to keep memory requirements under control and oftentimes it is necessary to optimize analyses to reduce memory needs. There is actually two main sources driving Spotfire's memory needs: The size of the ...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 6 Needs Info

    Support Commen Table Expression (WITH) in data connection custom query

    Commen Table Expresion (CTE) is currently not supported in the custom query. This would allow users to use temporary result set within the execution scope. We usually handle this with a store procedure, but its an issue on databases we are not all...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 7 Future Consideration

    Use native column selectors from within Spotfire Copilot chat experience

    In order to refer to specific columns, or potentially data tables, visualizations and other elements of the Spotfire Analysis from within the Spotfire Copilot chat experience, it would be useful to be able to use Spotfire's native selector UIs suc...
    8 months ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Set certain document properties by bookmark

    I would like to be able to set only certain document properties,NOT all of them, through bookmarks. It would be good to be able to specify the document properties to be adjusted at the time of saving the bookmark, but also at the time of applying ...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Bookmarks 10 Future Consideration
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