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    JDBC drivers - Summary with all download links

    Checking for new versions of the drivers for N vendors is time consuming. The page https://community.tibco.com/wiki/tibco-spotfire-jdbc-data-access-connectivity-details#toc-35 contains some information, but you have to click through dozen of links...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Make memory consumption of visualizations visible

    When working with "big data" it is important to keep memory requirements under control and oftentimes it is necessary to optimize analyses to reduce memory needs. There is actually two main sources driving Spotfire's memory needs: The size of the ...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 6 Needs Info

    Add Aliasing of Database names

    Although most people know it's bad practice to have different database names between Development, UAT, and production, the reality is that most of us have had to deal with this at some point or other. Thus even though your Datasource has the same ...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 To be Reviewed

    Insert custom expression into title of visual

    At the moment, it is possible to insert Dynamic Item with Calculated value into Text area. In this way you can visualize the value of arbitrary custom expression in text area. I am suggesting to have same dynamic option in the graph tittle. Usecas...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Add Adapter for Azure Serverless SQL Server and Azure Serverless Pools

    Add Adapter for Azure Serverless SQL Server and Azure Serverless Pools . This was raised by Medline on case https://supportapps.tibco.com/case/02203154
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 1 Planning to implement

    Be able to perform on-the-fly datum transformations when adding map layers with different CRS

    By default, Spotfire works in WGS84 (World Mercator). A lot of data exists in different datums and projections but Spotfire has no capacity to be able to simultaneously apply datum transformations so that the layers spatially align. This is a seri...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    API to read Min and Max values for Y-axis when values are not set

    Referring to https://community.tibco.com/wiki/how-read-and-set-values-axis-range-multiple-scales-mode-tibco-spotfire-using-ironpython it is not possible to fetch the values if the Min and Max fields are empty / displaying the grayed out text 'Auto...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    Data function management UI consistency

    Which UI to go to in order to do different things with data functions? Not clear/obvious currently. Many frustrations with these UI's. How is it clear that "Run" also registers? And then this isn't where I go afterwards to edit the data function
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Non-adjacent multiple selection on a mobile touch device

    Context: working from a mobile device. This option would help to perform multiple selection, as there's no CTRL button to press..The workaround of the usage of lasso selection works with some visualizations (for example barchart) but not with othe...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Mobile 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire client opens 5 connections to database when using Oracle data connectors, and hold them till closing the client

    When we use a data connection to retrieve data from an Oracle database, the Spotfire client opens 5 connections to the database with each usage. Those connections remain open even after you close the template using File > Close. The only way to...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration
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