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    Support any upgrade activity with zero downtime

    We support a large global Spotfire Consumer user base, most of whom don't know that they're using Spotfire (they just know they use 'such and such dashboard'). As such, we need the ability to apply any changes to our environment without user impac...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Shift transformations in data canvas

    When analysing data, sometimes many transformations are needed. When using add columns, you may realize that the transformation shouldn't have been done on the original table, but at the very end of the result data table, or vice versa. Then you h...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    Determine column types using type information in data set rather than data values

    Spotfire infers column types by examining the values in (the first 1000) rows of the data set being loaded. This generally works well but makes mistakes often enough that manual correction becomes laborious. A case in point is when real-valued dat...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    smooth the line curves in Spotfire

    The line curves in Spotfire aren't that smooth as the curves in Excel prompting management preference at times to dashboards with static curves in excel over the dynamic dashboards from Spotfire. Please make the line curves smooth to defeat the co...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 3 Future Consideration

    put full path of currently opened dxp file into document property

    Customer wish that Analyst can put full path of currently opened dxp file (whether from local file or from library) into document property (as a runtime value) automatically. He needs to pass this path to Python data function and do something with...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Custom data functions should have same UI components (menu items) as custom data sources

    The recommendation from TIBCO support is to switch using custom data sources to custom data functions. Support provided the following link to show how this can be done: https://community.tibco.com/wiki/wrap-data-source-inside-data-function The mai...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Ensure `data.table::patterns()` compatibility in future release

    data.table is preferred when working with large data sets for speed, and data.table::patterns() facilitates column(s) selection with regular expression, which is useful for concise code, as oppose to doing this as a separate line item.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R 0 Future Consideration

    Add auto-retry on failed data function call in case of 401/500 error from statsvc

    Problem: If Statistics services returns 401 or 500 error (that happens often enough for our users), current behavior of Webplayer (10.3) is to just fail. Usually it is enough to do manual retry, or do analysis F5 refresh but that is inconvenient f...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Event Based Scheduling (Trigger from a file or schedule)

    Other BI tools that we use have the concept of event based scheduling. So in addition to a schedule firing at a given time/day and frequency the schedule only fires if a designated trigger file can be found or another schedule that this schedule i...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 4 Future Consideration

    Modify the thickness of gridlines

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    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration
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