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    A way programmatically to migrate and change the types to solve the problem

    This is related to Support ticket 2559163. The exception is thrown before constructor deserialization, so the developer can't catch that exception. The fix is to throw the exception when deserializing the explicit immutable property.
    5 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 To be Reviewed

    improve button (action control) appearance

    One of our customers wants the button (action control, typically added in a text area) appearance to be improved. For this use case the button is associated to an IronPython script that could take a while to run. Regarding the behavior of the Acti...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Add possibility to dynamically change the display names of properties (eg. axes name)

    The names of axes of a mod are defined in the manifest file, and displayed on the left hand side in the property dialog. Sometimes it is however useful to be able to change these names to be more appropriately named for a specific the project (wit...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Ability to show and hide document pages via actions

    it would be really helpful if there were actions to show/hide the pages within an analysis document. This would be a bit like setting the visible property of a worksheet in Excel. This could be a dynamic action. This would enable a master page of ...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    Public Web Service to check status Scheduled Updates (external updates)

    We make use of the public web service UpdateAnalysisService to trigger scheduled updates externally after a data refresh. Sometimes the scheduled updates fail. The only way to check this, is to manually log on at the Spotfire Server, go to the Sch...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 2 Future Consideration

    Choose which columns get grand totals in cross-table

    We have a cross table where some columns (e.g. sales total) benefit from a grand total, whereas others (e.g. the sales rank of a product against other products) do not. We would like to have the option to choose whether a column gets a total. Ad...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Powerpoint Export API

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    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration

    Way to calculate number of working week day

    We're looking for a simple way to calculate the number of working weekdays. In Spotfire, there is no simple function, but in Tableau, there is a "Weekday"DateDiff("weekday",[ORDER DATE],[DELIVERY DATE])In Spotfire, the closest I got is this refere...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 3 Future Consideration

    Add capability to enable/disable items on top File menu (Consumer, Business Author + Analyst)

    This is useful when we expose certain reports to users but don't want them to have access to specific info/links. For example when Spotfire is embedded within custom portal. Specifically looking to disable "File -> View Library" and "Help ->...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire 1 Future Consideration

    Change default insert columns behavior

    The way that the Spotfire insert columns mechanism is built is it builds a list of columns to ignore, rather than a list of columns to insert. For example, let's say you have Table A with column A, B, and C. You insert column A into Table B. Then,...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration
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