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    Enhance Limitation Document Property and HTML Text Area

    At the moment Document Property are limited to 64KB and HTML Area section is limited to 2 MB. As this is quite common to use Document Property to be able to execute Javascript scripts for data that are managed by Iron Python, this kind of limitati...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Keep f(x) flyout items up-to-date with library

    When a data function has been deleted from library, it does not always reflect in the flyout (possibly because a client reload is needed?). Data functions are also not updated with the latest version in the library, nor is existing version number ...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Need ability to retrieve all columns in a table through information link (Select * from table) rather than adding individual columns to the information designer

    In most cases, we use all the columns from a table or view to be source for spotfire through an information link. Any new column addition in the back end table or any column data type modification will NOT automatically propagate to the informatio...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    need storage persist option for replacing data tables

    Whenever I replace a data table the storage method always resets to "always new data". Can the previous setting be preserved across replacement? It's extra step to reset to the previous setting (if I can recall what it was), and is quite annoying....
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Node manager doesn't properly handle fail over for the scheduled updates and this needs to be updated

    Currently, if the a scheduled update rules fails on a rule is will keep trying to use that node to re-run the rule regardless of the reason it fails. It should go to the next node in this scenario instead since the next node could be able to handl...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 1 Future Consideration

    Numeric equality issues when using a Single Real column

    When doing comparisons against a single real column, the static value entered is not auto cast to a single real. This results in rather odd behavior such as the value 1.1 in a single real column != the user entered value of 1.1 If for example. I h...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Bar chart label position for each section

    Label position of bar chart's sections are aligned center, but would you add option of "align top / center / bottom" ? This option is useful when exporting visuals to PPT/PDF, that are zoomed with zoom-slider. Please refer to the attached ppt.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Insert Filter to Text Area is not user friendly when thousands of columns exist in the data set

    Inserting a Filter to Text Area can be quite cumbersome when having tables with several thousand columns.The Insert Filter Dialog Window has no search/filter function and also has a fix (not adjustable) size. When having a table with e.g. 5000 col...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    add option to not register supported file extensions while installing Analyst

    Many of our customers are facing the issue that csv/xls/xlsx files are associated to Analyst automatically after Analyst is installed. Below is the explanation from support, =================== Unfortunately, this is the default behavior of certai...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    Open analysis in new window without having to open a new Spotfire session

    I'm using SF7.11 analyst. When I open a new analysis and don't want to close the running one, I have to start a new spotfire session and from there open the analysis. I'd like to have an option to do this directly somehow, e.g. have an additional ...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration
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