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    Add ability to specify column data types when importing programmatically from Excel.

    I am currently running a script which will replace data tables with excel sheets through a simple file explorer interface. However I am noticing that Spotfire is automatically guessing the data type of a column based on the first n rows of data im...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Show/hide cross table columns

    Ability to Hide / Unhide the column that we not required. Like in Excel. This works also when I have multiple Horizontal Column in the Cross Table.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Adding Error Bars to SPC Charts node and IQC objects in Statistica Enterprise

    It would be great to include "error bars" with the SPCs charts node.
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 1 Needs Info

    export visualization configuration to text file

    Customer want to have tha ablity to export all visualization configuration, e.g. data settings / axis settings / lines and curves etc, to text file, in order to describe it in design document, as well as compare two visualizations.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Change the Font size of Chart Axis

    Hello Team, We would like to get the option to change the Font size of the Chart X or Y Axis axis name (not the scale labels) in the Chart Properties or Tools>Option>Fonts pop-up window rather then changing from the Custom Themes settings wh...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Legend Marking for Segments

    Marking from the legend is not currently supported for color mode "Segments". This is not intuitive. It is confusing that sometimes users can mark a color from the color by legend, but not always. We'd like to be able to mark when using segments a...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Package builder should support ability to deploy to server

    While not a frequent activity, it is convenient to build and deploy an SDK package to the server. This no longer works with 11.x and external auth.Previously we could connect to the TSS directly and use LDAP credentials even though we also had an ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Unlikely to implement

    Remove 'Prepared Reports' via Spotfire API

    Create ability to remove prepared reports with the Spotfire API. Right now, I believe only viewing a list of existing reports and exporting existing reports is possible.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Provide a global "Cancel" functionality (using a hot-key) within the Spotfire session

    We need a global "Cancel"/"Abort" functionality (using a hot-key like Esc or Ctrl-C) within the Spotfire session, to stop/kill the last operation/process/thread. In many occasions, users invoke (by mistake) an operation that takes a very long time...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 1 Future Consideration

    Data Source Configurable timeout setting

    In the Information Designer/Data Source, we would like to have a way to configure a data source timeout. We want more granularity to terminate connections if queries takes too long to execute from the application/client level. (Note that this is d...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 4 Future Consideration
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