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    API to detect when Spotfire is crashing

    We need an event that is triggered when Spotfire crashes ... This is already available in .net using: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException But unfortunatly it does not work from within Spotfire! In our case, we keep track on when professiona...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Fix API that detects Spotfire is closing

    The following API in Spotfire application.Exiting(...) is supposed to fire when Spotfire is exiting. This would allow us to do any necessary cleanups before Spotfire dies. But unfortunatly, this API is not working. The workaround is to use either ...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Process response data from external actions

    Add the ability to process response data from external actions. The data can be used as input to visualizations, further data loading and other analytical tasks, enabling application developers to expand applications containing actions, e.g. reloa...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Actions 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire to support opening excel files generated by openpyxl

    Hi I have a python script where it will export excel using 'openpyxl' library, the exported file is normal excel and cen be opened in excel without issue. But when opened in Spotfire, it will prompt for error tha format is incorrect. I hope this c...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Cancel the export or import operation

    If export or import operation in library is triggered, how it can be cancelled if I wish to do in between? Is there any way to achieve this?
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Display Null/Empty as something else (ie, 0) in Graphical Table

    We have a user who has a graphical table, however, within the report they see that graphic tables have "---" to represent missing rows. They would like to pre-fill it with "0" or "N/A" if possible. Is it?
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    PDF Flatten before Export

    We've noticed the default PDF export does not flatting the objects, often creating a much larger report file than needs to be as a PDF. We would like to have a way to compress/flatting the report objects in the PDF file when exporting
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Mark inside a feature

    Spotfire allows for data marking in a map chart by selecting an area or by clicking on a feature, but not by selecting a shape file that has been imported. There are many useful shape files available to overlay on map charts, and those are great f...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Javascript in text area - allow more than just String as parameter

    When adding parameters to a Javascript in a text area, only a String value is allowed in the user interface. Could we use document properties, values... as much as we can use for Iron Python scripting ?
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Snowflake adapter - ability to override Snowflake session configuration

    Snowflake allows various overrides to be done at the session level, including: USE_CACHED_RESULT - https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/parameters.html#use-cached-result QUERY_TAG - https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/parameters.ht...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration
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