Spotfire Ideas Portal
ADD A NEW IDEA

Ideas

    Create DaysInMonth(...) date function for spotfire expressions

    It would be super helpful to have an out-of-the-box function to return the number of days in the month for the specified timestamp, ie. DaysInMonth(2026-09-25) --> 30. This would facilitate rates/volumes aggregations when the table has variable...
    about 1 month ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Preserve Template-in-Template State When Switching Web Player Tabs

    When using Web Player library templates in a template-in-template configuration, navigating between tabs/templates causes the embedded template to reinitialize every time it is opened. For example, a user may open the "A" template, apply filters a...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 1 Needs Info

    Set a default custom theme for new DXP files

    We would like a default visual theme for analyses specified by the administrator. Themes should be stored separately in the Spotfire library and changed in one place. This would make it easier to keep analyses look and feel consistent and reduce t...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Improve Configuration UI for Complex Action Mods

    Enhance the usability and flexibility of the configuration interface for Action Mods, particularly for more complex implementations. As mods grow in complexity, the current configuration window can become crowded and difficult to navigate, making ...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Embedding Data Functions within Action Mods

    Enable support for embedding data functions directly within the Action Mod package, rather than requiring them to be stored and referenced separately in the Spotfire Library. Currently, Action Mods depend on externally managed data functions, whic...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Enable Data Connection Management from Action Mods

    Extend the Mod API to allow Action Mods to interact with Spotfire’s data layer, specifically to create, modify, or trigger data connections. Currently, Action Mods cannot: Create new data connections (e.g., databases, APIs, local files) Modify...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add Document Properties to a Text Area via an Action Mod

    Currently, it is not possible to create a Text Area and embed Document Properties or other objects directly through an Action Mod. While it is possible to: create and edit Text Areas, and create or modify Document Properties via the mod, the...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Create Local Administrators, so that Analysts can manage access to their libraries

    We would like to give Spotfire Analysts the responsibility to add users and/or user groups themselves, so they can manage their own user groups and/or library permissions. Looking at the differences of the Administrator and Analyst Licenses the pe...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration
    184 VOTE

    Table and column auto-width, min-width and in-column search

    Currently tables in Spotfire look very ugly, not user friendly, have static widths and always laden with scrollbars and no built-in search functionality. Our users didn't want to use them. If you look at jQuery dataTables as an example of what a m...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration
    182 VOTE

    Better support of web services

    When you need to consume data from a web service in Spotfire there are different options like implementing a custom data source, develop an Iron Python script, use an R script on your Stats server or use something like Composite or Jboss Teiid tha...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration
    The material provided is for informational purposes only, and should not be relied on in making any purchasing or investment decision. The information is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion. © 2026 Cloud Software Group LLC. All rights reserved. This page and your use is governed by these Terms of Use.