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    Automation Services does not fire analysisApplication.DocumentClosing event ...

    Both Spotfire Professioanl Analyst and Web Player trigger analysisApplication.DocumentClosing event when a document is closed ... but this does not trigger in Automation Services when a job is finished executing. TIBCO support provided the followi...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Automation Service job should provide a unique job ID

    When running jobs in Automation services, we need to have a unique job ID per running job that is accessible via public API. Currently, I was unable to find such public job ID that can be used! Use case: When we execute jobs in Automation services...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    API to detect when Spotfire is crashing

    We need an event that is triggered when Spotfire crashes ... This is already available in .net using: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException But unfortunatly it does not work from within Spotfire! In our case, we keep track on when professiona...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Fix API that detects Spotfire is closing

    The following API in Spotfire application.Exiting(...) is supposed to fire when Spotfire is exiting. This would allow us to do any necessary cleanups before Spotfire dies. But unfortunatly, this API is not working. The workaround is to use either ...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Specific filter for a visualization displayed on the visualization itself

    For example, rather than include a filter in a text area, there could be a pop up filter available for a specific visualization. For example, click on filter icon to display a date range filter for a specific line chart displaying date values on t...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Process response data from external actions

    Add the ability to process response data from external actions. The data can be used as input to visualizations, further data loading and other analytical tasks, enabling application developers to expand applications containing actions, e.g. reloa...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Actions 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire to support opening excel files generated by openpyxl

    Hi I have a python script where it will export excel using 'openpyxl' library, the exported file is normal excel and cen be opened in excel without issue. But when opened in Spotfire, it will prompt for error tha format is incorrect. I hope this c...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Customize the 'updating' spinning animation

    We would like to be able to substitute the default spinning that is shown when a visualization is being updated by an animation chosen by us. Sometimes the original spinning can be too subtle for the user.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Pie chart legend with percentage

    Sometimes there are too much slices and the labels are shown overlapping. In these scenarios it would be nice to have the option to show the percentages (or values) in the legend next to the slices's names.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Dynamically Update Column Name based upon a value in a Document Property Control.

    For doing ratios and conversions, it would be helpful to dynamically update the column name for ease of reference. For example, doing a 6:1 conversion the user would enter in 6 in the property control and the "6" would show up on the Column Name (...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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