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    Allow change data source load method between external and import

    Customer request this feature to make spotfire even more easy to use. As you know when importing data from database via data connector, either external or import can be specified, however it can not be changed after the import is done. Customer ho...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    to include R-sq for non-linear curves

    No direct and easy option appears to include R-square for polynomial curve fit unlike linear curves. This would be advantageous to include for making the case for Spotfire as a tool for statistical analysis. As a work around in order to get an R-s...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Handle the browser back button in a more expected manner

    Handle the browser back button in Web Player – detect movement between pages in an analysis and allow the back button to be used to navigate back to the previous page. Possibly something that would need to be enabled per analysis as behaviour may ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    When Hierarchy on y-axis is expanded and then collapsed the row indentations are not preserved but reset. What's up with that?

    When Hierarchy is expanded and then collapsed on cross table viz the row indentations are not preserved but reset. What's up with that?
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Log entry for which user used "Replace Value" function

    Hi, Recent version of Spotfire 7.9 came with a cool feature, enabling users to replace values on table views. Data Panel source view has an entry for this type of transformation but it does not have any information about which user did the chang...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    add function to update the value of document property

    Please add function to update the value of document property from custome expression & calculated columns, it's very helpful in some use cases if we can assign value from data table to document property.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Quickly transform data using Python or R

    The Spotfire Data Canvas should support transforming data with Python or R code that's added directly to the data canvas pipeline. With a couple of clicks you should be able to paste your Python or R code directly into a new data function which is...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Color line items for a column value wrapped in a hierarchy.

    I want to draw attention to particular rows in which the string values meet specific criteria. If my y-axis column is just "costs" then I can color based on value, but it being a hierarchy I have no option to color on any level.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Better indication as to why the launch RStudio button is disabled

    We've found that even though we have RStudio installed we see the button within Spotfire disabled. It's taken quite a bit of troubleshooting using the ProcMon tool to discover that Spotfire relies on specific registry entries to find RStudio - and...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    Loading Queue Concept - Instead of harsh timeout/loading circle, users want to see progress

    One of the issues and challenges we've constantly faced with users is that they don't see any feedback from the system if the reports are loading. By just having a spinning circle without any progress indicator, the users are unaware of what is ha...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
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