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    Add `ReplaceDataFlow()` method for `DataTableDataSourceOperations` class

    In IronPython API, DataSourceOperations class has the ReplaceDataFlow() method which allows Data Table replacement without affecting downstream Data Transformation steps, similar to manually replacing in Data Canvas (i.e., click on table > Repl...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration

    Document property: slider controls need formatting options

    While building an analysis tool for my company I came across the need to use a number of document properties as inputs. In an effort to put some bounds on what the users could enter I decided to make these document properties as sliders, so I coul...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 2 Future Consideration

    Improve categorical coloring rules based on counts

    I don't think that Spotfire does this, and it does not look like it from my eyeballing. When determining the color mapping for a categorical column, Spotfire should first perform a count of all column values, then apply its "best" categorical colo...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    add API to manipulate property controls in text area

    Please add API to manipulate property controls in text area, such as adding/changing/removing available options in dropdown list or listbox.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Set the dimension to be used as a measure in the Essbase Connector

    Following this idea: https://ideas.tibco.com/ideas/TS-I-5554 It would be useful to be able to set the dimension to be used a measure, even though there is already account dimension found by Spotfire. in short, being able to define (already implem...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    export visualization configuration to text file

    Customer want to have tha ablity to export all visualization configuration, e.g. data settings / axis settings / lines and curves etc, to text file, in order to describe it in design document, as well as compare two visualizations.
    12 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    formatting

    When you create a worksheet template, the line spacing between related items is too wide for a hard line break (Enter only). Therefore, we now use a soft line break (Shift + Enter) to partially close the line spacing. However, this method may br...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Needs Info

    Add a filter to Tibco Idea, to choose a Spotfire Version, and get the list of Idea implemented

    Easier to look at new idea implemented !
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Tags 1 Future Consideration

    Oracle Number(0) values are represented as Currency in Spotfirer 10.10

    When we load data from Oracle into Spotfire, the integer values (represented as Number(0) in Oracle) are translated into Currency columns in Spotfire data tables! The mapping between Oracle Number(0) and .Net data type is not correct and leads to ...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Unlikely to implement

    API to set table dependencies

    SF10.10.x reloads/refreshes the data tables based on the table creation order. So the first created data table is the first one to be refreshed while the last created table is the last one to be refreshed. This sequential operation allowed us to c...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration
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