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    Windows 8 Tablet PC

    Spotfire Professional should be supported on Windows 8 tablet PC
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Will not implement

    Reliable distro files naming convention

    We had invested a lot of effort into building automations that would allow upgrade Spotfire quickly. Every such upgrade process starts with new distro files as inputs. But for some reason, distro filename convention keeps changing and it breaks o...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Support extremely wide data sets

    Spotfire is excellent when working with wide datasets that can contain thousands or even tens of thousands of columns. In some situations, datasets can be extremely wide with millions of columns, which sometimes causes performance and UX issues. I...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    please allow to change/configure the format of file names when doing File -> Export -> Table on browser

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    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Export 2 Future Consideration

    Refresh only one data source

    The refrsh button refreshes all data tables. I'd like to have a button that gives me a dropdown list so I can only refresh 1 data source. I have eg a spotfire dashboard with data from 15 data sources. Sometimes I only want 1 data source refreshed,...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Already exists

    Better Logic / Control over Column Name Changes

    Hello, I've recently had a support case (Case#2463638) about unwanted column name changes when using the "add rows" feature in combining data sets. In discussions around that case, we documented some inconsistencies around column name changes that...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Nested visualizations

    There are some visualizations (mainly the graphical table and KPI chart) which can already contain limited other visualizations. It would be very useful to introduce the concept of a container in which any type of visualization could be rendered (...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Set max number of bins

    I found something strange during analysis. When I use not only 'auto-bin' , but also 'binned column', max number of bins is set 1000, no matter what value I set. I want to set max number of bins.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    add option to encrypt the <value> of <connection-property> defined in a data source templates

    Please add option to encrypt the <value> of <connection-property> defined in a data source templates. For example, we want to encrypt "private_key_file_pwd" used to connect to snowflake using key pair authentication. <connection-pro...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Better text formatting and viewing options

    It would be useful to wrap text comments and not run off the screen in detail on demand, cross tables, and tables. Also, we had a case recently (2467075) where exporting from details on demand and copying and pasting to Excel was truncating the te...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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