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    Data Canvas: Export/Import of ”node configurations” (transformation collections) to be reused in other dxp files.

    It would be very productive if it was possible to export/import parts of the configurations (collections of actions) from the data canvas – to be (re)used in other dxp files. Despite that it is possible to exchange data sources in a dxp, which som...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Gantt Chart Mod doesn't resize properly

    Currently the Gantt Chart Mod, has the following issues: Background is grey. No option to set the color. Even a default while background would have been fine with us Ability to set the fonts for the labels such as date, year and other attributes R...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    The ability to make SpotfireControl objects in text areas common for any text area

    When you add a filter, drop down, etc. into a text area for a report it shows up as something like <SpotfireControl id="909008u8ssahhjhkjashj" />. For this to work you should be able to copy the above to another text area and have the same o...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    Control the Map Ratio Settings with a doc properties or expression

    Allow the map ratio settings to be controlled by a document property or a expression. This would be very useful when using non-map based coordinates For example, gunbarrel diagrams in oil and gas. These are often shown with vertical exaggeration b...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Open Information Designer to edit selected Information Link from Data canvas

    With a right-click on the icon for the Information Link within the Data canvas, and/or with a button (see attached modified screenshot), the Information Designer would open for editing the selected Information Link. This would improve a lot the wo...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Google BigQuery API Timeout after 10 seconds

    We have run into an issue which will stop us to develop any valuable datasets in Spotfire. So the situation is the following: When I run a query based on a table definition Spotfire kicks out a bigquery#table job which runs fine with no issues Whe...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Provide an option to setup a custom database for the default cache db

    The DV server currently uses an embedded PostgreSQL database as the default cache. This enhancement would allow the developer or admin the ability configure any supported cache data source as their "default" cache.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Future Consideration

    Official Support for CDH 6.x

    I think it's important to officially support one of the most important Hadoop distributions in its recent version. CDH 6 has been released more than 1 year ago, so it's time to provide official support for this data source.
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 To be Reviewed

    Easily switch between configured visualizations

    When building dashboards for our consumer users, for some visualizations, I would like to be able to provide one or more options that the user can easily choose between. As an example I may have a visualization that shows Class sales over time as ...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Map projections

    Add/enable a Google Earth style 3D globe projection. This would solve many issues with World Mercator, lack of polar projections, visualization, etc.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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