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    Audit changes to library permissions

    Track changes to folder permissions within the library, perhaps using entries in the Action log table. We occasionally have problems where someone has incorrectly modified folder permissions and it would be useful to (a) identify what happened a...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration

    Capture the exception code from the database when encountering errors on TDV

    We hope that when frontend users execute API services released by TDV, in case of an error, the error message can include the error code provided by the data source. Then the front-end can collect error codes for futher analysis and application.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 4 To be Reviewed

    option to load all numeric data(int,real,etc) as real

    Spotfire automatically determines data type from first 100 rows of data when loading data from text/excel. A new option is expected by users, that is, "load all numeric data (determined as integer or real or others) as real", in order to use real ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    JavaScript in V7

    Hello We used javascript function in 6.5. It seems that some on them (like on('change',function() ) does not work anymore. We had some accordion in text area that know won't work correctly. I there a documentation somewhere about what change to wh...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Will not implement

    Allow manual sorting of the "selected columns" associated with a property control

    The current alternative to workaround not being able to sort the columns within a spotfire property is to used fixed values option would reduce the flexibility of the solution, should columns be renamed for example, and also maintaining the fixed ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Visualization Dash to group Details Visualization

    Idea behind this is to Display logically arranged Details Visualization. A drill-down or details visualization takes a lot of Space and often when we move from Summary to details, Summary used for selection initially and then ignored. Idea is to c...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for Statistica

    This would allow for the automation of various documents, forms and paper submissions to be read (could be PDF reports from testing labs or CMOs, handwritten reports, Excel spreadsheets, etc.)
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Expressions - formula in-line context

    Add functionality like found in other coding languages (R, SQL, even Excel) which would show preview text when creating a new custom expression. For example: When you start typing... dateadd( you would see something like... dateadd( 'increment'...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Keep formatting in cross table when display name of column changes

    When the display name of a column (cell value) in a cross table changes, the formatting settings are reset. This is highly annoying, especially when column names include a document property which is changed by a user. After each change, the format...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add (line/bar chart) label option for Min/Max only ("Sparkline switch")

    When using line or bar charts, it would improve readability, if only the relevant data points are labeled, e.g. first, last, min, max points. This is often seen in Sparklines and the setting could be named like this in Settings-Labels
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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