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    Spotfire Mods vs Native Visuals

    After working extensively with Mods in production scenarios, one limitation keeps surfacing over and over: Mods operate on a materialized data view, while native visuals operate on top of Spotfire’s semantic layer. This difference might seem subtl...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / API 3 Needs Info

    Enable table reload with prompt from IronPython in Web player

    Table reload is available to be triggered as a script in the client, the same is not available on the web. This leads for inconsistent report design and the need to try and train users to access the menu for reload but can configure action buttons...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    Export Conversations

    I'm designing a dashboard and the team using it will be making a lot of notes with the Conversation tool. The team hasn't asked for this yet, but it would be great if the conversations from dashboards could be exported into something along the lin...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Export 5 Future Consideration

    Web Player - Scheduler to restart Node Manager services

    As per current way the Web Player works, images are cached in analyses and not refreshed. The only way to get an updated image would be to restart the service. The scheduler would then restart the Web Player service in question in order to get upd...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Range filter slider with Non-Linear Step Size

    If data is not linearly distributed, it would be very useful to be able to select a slider that enables one to move across the entire range of data (e.g. if there is a higher density of data on the order of 1e2 units and a lower density at 1e10 un...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire 2 Future Consideration

    API for changing custom query

    Please add API function that can be called by e.g. an IronPython script to custom query and reload again
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Restrict Data Export for Authors and Analysts on special Analysis files / Visualizations

    We have some confidential data which we'd like to protect and users not allow to export. This is possible for users with Consumer role. Here the admin easily de-flags "Allow table data export in Spotfire web clients" under Appearance before publis...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 2 Future Consideration

    expose compact hierarchy filter for TreeMap

    TreeMaps are important hierarchical visualizations and navigating the hierarchy is an important interaction for treemaps. I do this all the time. So do my friends. Users are tyoically not modifying any of the other settings, but they need to navig...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Azure Information Protection (AIP)

    Azure Information Protection is being adopted by Azure customers as an add-on layer of authorization at the document level. Applications reading protected documents (eg MS Excel worksheets) need to be AIP-aware. Current behavior from Spotfire: Spo...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Local File Storage adapter cannot estimate date type

    I have tested the following 5 patterns, but none of them could generate a DATE type. 1. value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyy-MM-dd" → INTEGER 2. Value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyyMMMdd" → INTEGER 3. Value "20230201" + DateFormat "yyyyMMMdd" → INTE...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration
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