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    Spotfire streaming data from Kafka.

    Dear Team We have Kafka server. We want to stream data from Kafka to Spotfire. Br, Neck
    29 days ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 To be Reviewed

    High DPI support

    When using the Spotfire Analyst client on High DPI screens now it runs in high DPI compatibility mode: all pixels are scaled to larger pixels. Adding native high DPI support would allow the visual splendor of Spotfire to shine so much brighter. Wi...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Cache job auto-restart upon failure

    We would like the option to automatically reattempt a cache job when it fails. We have some public api data sources that randomly fail from time to time, and they succeed if you just restart them. It would save us time and failure alerts if they c...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching / data movement 2 Future Consideration

    Truncate cache buckets instead of delete

    Currently buckets have all their records deleted, and then the new records are inserted. In the database this means 2 write operations, and is a major cause of index fragmentation. Most databases allow you to truncate the table, which is only an a...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Planning to implement

    add option to configure fiscal year offset on application level for Analyst desktop

    Please add option to configure fiscal year offset on application level for Analyst desktop, so that it can be specified one place and apply to all dxp files. Currently one must change the appropriate document property in each dxp file to set this.
    about 1 month ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Add a file adapter to connect to parquet files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to parquet files to read in data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 3 Future Consideration

    Bulk Data Source Path Replacement

    Currently, we use files located on a Windows shared folder as our data source. Whenever our system is updated and the shared folder path changes, we are forced to manually update the absolute path for every single analysis file. This process is ex...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    improve button (action control) appearance

    One of our customers wants the button (action control, typically added in a text area) appearance to be improved. For this use case the button is associated to an IronPython script that could take a while to run. Regarding the behavior of the Acti...
    3 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Add a WLM Policy to triage jobs based on service class/priority

    As a DV administrator, I'd like to set a workload management policy that segregates jobs based on the service class, priority, and/or client applications assigned to it. For example, I'd like to specify that during certain hours, select caching re...
    9 months ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / management 0 Future Consideration

    fix zoom slider color problem in dark mode

    It looks more like a defect but support insists it's by design. The selected part in zoom slider is hard to distinguish from the total slider in dark mode, due to the color of them is almost identical, see attached screenshot. It would be much eas...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
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