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    Web-based Spotfire, Data Virtualisation and Streaming

    It would be great to have Spotfire, Data Virtualisation and Streaming all three products combined into one web-based platform to give business users a breakthrough Technologies to serve their needs.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Streams 0 Future Consideration

    Allow favoriting a file from the file

    Convenience. Better UX. Sometimes (often) I receive a file via a link to it. After processing it I want to favorite it. I don't know where it lives in the library. What to do? There is no way to get the library path from a dxp file, so if I want t...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Display a custom panel when no document is open

    Ability to have custom panels be accessible before any document is opened is needed to support scenarios where the panel has functionality that allows the user to open a document or creating a new document from data.
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Stronger login screen security - Options

    I would like the login screen to allow users to: - reset their password - send automatic email when password change - set password rules for users to change their own password - as administrator being able to enter the system as any user in order ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    tooltips for property controls

    Adding a tooltip to propery controls on text areas speeds up the process of authoring leaving as optional the need to add a label next to each document propery to identify which document property the property control is tied to
    9 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    Auto-size Row Height in Table vizualizations

    We are using the Spotfire table visualization to report out notes/comments, and it would be really convenient if the row heights of the table visualization auto-sized/auto-fit based on the amount of text data within the table.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Allow a Cross Table to be a "virtual data table"

    Would allow ability to aggregate data and then base visualizations on that aggregated data. Aggregations upon aggregrations get challenging to manage in Spotfire. Thinking this might be a good way to do this without doing it in a database.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to refer to filters in any custom expression

    Goal: Currently custom expressions in calculated columns cannot refer to filtering schemes to find out whether a given row is filtered in or out. Also custom expressions in visualisations can only refer to their visualisation's filtering schema (...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 4 Future Consideration

    speed up csv load

    Attached screenshot indicates that csv file load is much slower than stdf or sbdf. It makes sense that sbdf is fast because it's binary, however we didn't expect stdf is almost as fast as sbdf. Since both csv and stdf are text files and the size o...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Include function descriptions in Expression Builder for streaming data

    When using streaming data (in-db) with a custom expression, the functions are different than standard Spotfire functions. The description for how to use these functions suggest going online and finding Live Datamart or data base documentation. Thi...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Streams 0 Future Consideration
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