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    Add ability to duplicate controls in text area

    We often use text areas to create great looking dashboards, but having to configure all aspects of multiple similar Spotfire control elements from scratch can be time consuming. The ability to be able to duplicate an existing control and then edit...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow programmatic way to force Data Function to overwrite shared output table

    Request Allow programmatic way to force Data Function output table overwrite, when said table is shared between multiple Data Functions. Scenario Two Data Functions - function_one and function_two - write to the same output table - df_out - with t...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Add API access to allow updating the width of scale labels using python.

    This property is not currently exposed for use by python scripts. We have several use cases on our dashboards where we will toggle a visual between various reports using a python script (and it must be via python since we are doing things like cha...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    expose API to write log to user action log

    Customer would like to write log to user action log, in order to record usage and actions user has performed on a custom extension. Please expose API to do so if possible. Thanks.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

    See user preferences via web player

    In the Analyst Client it is possible via the help menu, to see the users preferences. It would help to be able to do this via the Web Player, as some users do not have or regularly use the Analyst Client. To enhance this more, give it the ability ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Regex Link Renderer for columns

    We would like to be able to apply a regular expression (regex) to a column to generate one or more link URLs. For example we have a string containing comma-separated IDs which we would like to render as a comma-separated list of link URLs. The cur...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    I would like the "Edit">"Edit in WebUI" menu in Studio to open the Web UI flow.

    When I select a flow created in WebUI from TDV Studio and click "Edit in WebUI" on the menu bar, only the top page of WebUI opens, but not the selected flow. Could you please change the specification so that the selected flow opens? If it is diffi...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data catalog / metadata 0 Future Consideration

    Mutiple scale option for categorical Scatter Plot Y-Axis

    As we know, we can apply multiple scales on the Y-axis of scatter plot when Y-axis data type is real, but some of our customers want to have the option for multiple scales Y-axis in scatter plot when Y-axis data type is categorical (String). For e...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Analysis wide python functions

    I would like to be able to define python functions which can be called from any script. This would make it easier to keep different scripts consistent which use the same code. I know that you can use the script handler to call other scripts, but I...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Visualization data as data table in Spotfire

    Often we need access to the aggregated data from a visualization. E.g. for an external tool; or for reporting; or for input to a data function. We should have the ability to have the aggregated (plot) data available as a data table in Spotfire. It...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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