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    Get rid of those inescapable dialog boxes

    The dialog boxes are often modal, meaing you are not allowed to work with the program until the dialog box is closed. But, you will often need to search for info such as variable numbers, or do something else. So, you then have to close the dialog...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 1 Will not implement

    Permission to file creator

    For dxp files, we should be able to grant 'Browse+Access+Modify' permissions to the file creators as an option, regardless of the permission of folder they belong to.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Dropdown Multiselect Document Property

    Need to add in the ability in the text area to have a dropdown Menu that is a multi-select checkbox. This would allow for a lot less space to be taken up than a multi-select list box. It would be great if it could spill over on top of another visu...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration

    Trim Hierarchy Filters if all empty below a level (or provide an option)

    If a hierarchy filter is "ragged" then it can look quite confusing to users to see levels such as (empty), (empty), (empty). Especially when using the filter to represent things like folder type structures. It would be great if the hierarchy fi...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    add capability to allow file I/O access

    Please add capability to allow file I/O under management. We have seen lots of use cases that utilize IronPythonscripts (possibly migrate to action mods in the future) to export data to csv, load data from csv, export pdf to file, etc.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Add Connectivity to Canary Data Historian

    As an oil & gas client, we collect millions of data points from field/plant automation points through Cygnet and store data in the Canary data historian - a NoSQL timeseries database. Canary suggests using the ODBC driver to connect to Spotfir...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Request for adding a new scatter plot that allows the marker rectangle to be resized to any size

    At the request of a semiconductor manufacturer user, please implement a new visualization or additional scatter plot functionality so that the following scatter plots can be created. Specify the center position of the marker as in a scatter plot M...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    add Linq support to Action Mod API

    Please add Linq support to Action Mod API to increase productibility when manipulating IEnumerable objects.
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Unlikely to implement

    Allow Declares on Filters

    Maps allow declare actions. I'd like to be able to add a declaration in a filter, where is predicates determining output could then made use of the declare. For exaple: DECLARE _rand random() Predicate for output 1: _rand < 0.1 Predicate for ou...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 0 Future Consideration

    Expose the API to set individual column width within CrossTablePlots

    The DataTable visual allows for setting individual column widths via IronPython. This API is not consistently implemented across similar tabular visuals, in particular the CrossTablePlot. Though users can adjust individual column widths using thei...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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