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    Consumer to export data from Details On Demands panel to file in csv/tsv/STDF/SBDF/Excel format

    Currently if exporting data from Details On Demands panel to file from browser (Consumer), the exported file's extension is "csv" (generally it refers to "comma seperated") but the content is tab seperated, which is confusing. Customer expectes th...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Provide ability to certify an information link or data set or analysis

    To add trust to data in an analysis, it is important that the pedigree and lineage of the data source is known. It would be good to be able to "sign" or display the data element lineage from visualization back to the source be it a DB, imported da...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Library 2 Future Consideration

    more flexible single sign-on for iPAD Spotfire app

    The authentication/authorization options to enable the Spotfire app is quite restrictive. NTLM/Windows Integrated will not work in our environment and we cannot use Anonymous sign-on either; which are the only two single sign-on options that will ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Mobile 0 Future Consideration

    Move the 'freeze Column' button away from the 'Edit' button for calculated fields

    I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally clicked the Freeze Column button in an analysis. This causes the data table to become embedded, and there is no way to un-embed it. Thus I lose would, and because there's no version control in Spot...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    Keep settings when changing the visualisation type

    When changing the visualisation type from a line graph to a scatter plot or vice versa, it would be good to keep all settings which exist in both visualisation types (at least x, y and color axis settings)
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add alternating color rows all table type visualizilations that currently don't have them

    Add alternating color rows all table type visualizilations that currently don't have them. This currently only exists out of the box for tables. It should exist for every one of these types.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Automatic alerting when data sources are deleted

    We had a recent incident which was major as someone accidentally deleted 3 data data sources through library administration. Since all the refernces were broken and recreating the data source will change the underlying unique id, it was not easy t...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to replace empty cells by a value in PIVOT transformation

    When pivoting tall tables to make them wide, we end up with lots of empty cells that correspond to combinations that do not exist in the original tall data set. It is now very difficult to replace these empty values by a valid value (like 0) ... s...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    AD Integration to SQL Server/Azure Database Connector

    We are looking for AD Integration for SQL Server. Current usage of Spotfire (we've tested upto 7.11) does not support AD Integration for MS SQL.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Improve Python, HTML, Java and R editors

    Python, HTML, Java and R editors in Spotfire are basically notepads. It would be great Spotfire could provide more specific editors for these languages.
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration
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