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    Running Spotfire in 32 Bit Mode on x64 / Connecting to 32 bit data sources through

    Connecting to 32 bit only data sources other than Access. Or running 32 bit Spotfire on a 64 bit machine for connecting to these data sources. Like IHS Petra.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Monitoring of Row Joins

    It would be great be able to see what is happening to the table when rows and columns are being added. I would like to see the number of rows/columns before and after the join to be able to check for poor joining that results in expanding the tabl...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    When adding a datatable in 10.1 the default setting should be to add as new data table not add to existing data table

    Having the ability to append data to existing data tables is nice but it shouldn't be the default setting as the majority of the time when you are adding you want to add as new not append to another table.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Copy folder permissions from one folder to another

    In many cases you want to give different groups different permissions on folders and creating group as the permissions for the different folders may change over time. It would be nice to have the option to copy folders permissions from one folder ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    use already loaded data for report level joins

    When using Report joins to add columns, if the joining table is already loaded why can this not be used to provide the extra columns rather than load the table again.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Zoom Slider Visualisation Redraw after slider outside of min max range

    When the min or max range for an axis is changed with a zoom slider, the graph is nor redrawn, if the slider is outside of the new range. But if the slider is still within range, the slider is re-positioned. It can be confusing that the slider can...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Option for mouse wheel scrolls 'zoom slider'

    The zoome slider in Spotfire is set up to zoom in and out when the mouse wheel is moved (hence the name). While this might be useful to target a bit of the data, it prevents us from easily navigating up and down a large list of categories. On all...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Adding R-Squared to Curve Fits

    In Spotfire, on the exponential curve fit and other curve fits, it would be great if the equation displayed would also include the coefficient of determination, or R-Squared value. Not at all different to what Microsoft Excel shows. It would be gr...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 2 Future Consideration

    Allow editing of MDX queries through information designer

    There are many ways to optmize or improve the load time of information links -- change drivers, modify SQL, change cach, pivot, etc. There are zero options for optimizing connections to cubes. Allowing MDX queries to be edited would be helpful or ...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 1 Future Consideration

    Ability to color individual table headers by IronPython script

    It would be nice to be able to color headers in a table individually by an IronPython script. My use case is a quite large table with header names created by specific rules. Depending on the header name content I want to color the headers respecti...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration
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