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    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

    Which spotfire reports and particular visualization within a report has more than 3000 datapoints

    We are looking for a high-level design of a solution that outlines the appropriate APIs or metadata tables to query, using the application profiler. The goal is to identify Which spotfire reports and particular visualization within a report has mo...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Will not implement

    Add capability to access graph DBs / triple stores

    e.g. by allowing accessing these via SPARQL
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 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)
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 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

    Automatic actions

    The Spotfire Actions functionality is great when a business user spots something and wants to manually invoke an action such as sending an email, or raising an issue in a ticketing system etc. TIBCO Integration can also be used to automatically in...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Actions 0 Future Consideration

    Read LDAP Directory as a data source

    Currently the only viable recommendation to read LDAP data is an external software called CData. It would be nice to have an intergrated solution to identify Spotfire's own use of LDAP information.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration

    Read Access rights for Administration Manager

    We have a class of devop like users who are developers and would assist in supporting production environment. We don't want to give them direct write access to modify anything in our production environment, but it is helpful for them to see everyt...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 4 Future Consideration

    Get rid of currency data type

    I spend more time changing currency data types to real data types than any other activity involved in creating information links.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Scatter Plot: Adding “multiple-scale” option on the X- axis.

    Right now the "multiple scale" option is allowed only on the y-axis, the option shall be available on the X-axis as well. Best, Yaqout.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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