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    Better JSON parsing support

    When you get JSON strings and you need to extract a few fields to table format for Spotfire consumption it would be nice having an efficient and easy to use parser to do this out of the box. Something like: JSONGetField( JSONString, ”afieldname” ...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Bring back the Microsoft PP edit image capabilities in web player

    Bring back the Microsoft PP edit image capabilities in web player
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Export 1 Future Consideration

    A more customizable Gantt chart for scheduling

    Currently you can only have one start/end for a task and not a start/end for multiple tasks. A view like the one below would be very helpful.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Improve JDBC Query operators and Data constructs

    Query JDBC operator should behave/look as close as it could to "In memory tables". One case is the one stated in "SB-44976 JDBC Query Op Output Settings cannot use aggregate expressions" . Another would be that for an In Memory table we can define...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 Unlikely to implement

    Allow access to HttpServletResponse from the custom authentication APIs

    We currently use the Authentication Filter capability (which has been deprecated) of Spotfire to implement a couple of features that don't appear to be possible with the CustomAuthenticator API: In certain situations we'll redirect the browser to...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire as a Service

    Spotfire Web should behave as a service. We should be able to load and query a Spotfire analysis via an external API and query it for data, results from aggregated visualisations, visualisation images, etc.. This means that we would be able to use...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    improve spotfireconfigtool

    There is a known issue with spotfireconfigtool. https://support.tibco.com/s/article/Error-while-running-the-spotfireconfigtool-Unable-to-determine-the-location-of-the-server-installation-directory-tomcat-webapps-spotfire-WEB-INF-directory Please i...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    bundle jdk17 inside spotfireconfigtool.jar

    With more and more customer starting to deploy TSS in Linux or containers, spotfireconfigtool.jar will become popular because it provides a GUI. To use this tool it is required to install JDK 17 on the local computer first, please bundle jdk17 ins...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 2 Future Consideration

    improve export-service-config when service is deployed on both Linux and Windows

    If service is deployed on both Linux and Windows, command "config export-service-config --capability=TERR --deployment-area=Production" will export the configuration of random OS, either Linux or Windows whichever is deployed first(probably). Argu...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 5 Future Consideration

    Add ability to programmatically determine what objects are included in a cache policy.

    Using a policy has exponentially reduced the time to complete the full cache refresh (from ~ 3 hours to just over 1 hour). However, there is no way to determine which views/objects have been added to a policy, thus managing the cache refresh proce...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 0 Future Consideration
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