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SQL Server Synonyms need be supported!

We utilize SQL Server Availability groups to distribute much of our master data across multiple servers. We then create synonyms to reference specific tables within other databases on the instance with the same performance as they exist within the...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources Future Consideration

Render HTML in all tables, titles, subtitles.

The customisations in Spotfire are very limited. There is no support for custom icons and the built in icons are very basic. We launched our more popular product to our customers (http://www.eroad.co.nz/au/landing/leaderboard/) which requires us t...
over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Output Holt-Winters forecast as calculated column

Just discovered the Holt-Winters forecasting implemtation in charts and find it extremely useful. However, it seems as if it was not possible to also get the forecasted values as a calculated column. This would be required to e.g. do some error co...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions Future Consideration

Increase or remove the limit for the number of x-axis values

Currently the Area Chart can show at maximum 10000 values on the x-axis. This is too few for some data sets.
over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API / Visualization Future Consideration

Have the same drilldown options for fiscal years as for calendar years

It would be great to be able to use the same date drilldown options in fiscal years as we can for calendar years, i.e. Fiscal Year > Fiscal Quarter > Month > DayOfMonth, and Fiscal Year > Month > DayOfMonth, or DayOfWeek. My compa...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions Future Consideration

Labels Anti-overlap and Movable for Graphs.

Labels should have an auto location with an anti-overlap function and can be adjusted by the users. More on the anti-overlap function, 1. It should detect other labels, lines, and elements from 'lines and curves'. 2. All labels should auto posit...
almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization Future Consideration

Enhance UX for Google BigQuery connector, is it possible to enhance the user experience by having at least some of these permission/settings to be remembered between sessions/dashboards?

Enhance UX for Google BigQuery connector. Users accessing Google BigQuery data through the connector have to click multiple times during authentication before seeing their data; none of these settings/authorizations are remembered for next time. ...
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration

Add support for ARRAY data type, as in postgres or greenplum

Our users are accessing postgres and greenplum databases which have tables making use of the ARRAY data type (modifier), typically on character varying and double precision basic data types. Out users ask if there is any method or function to inde...
over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / sql support Future Consideration

Add Python to code export

Ability to export models into Python code. To be concrete, I am asking about deploying models within Python scripts so they can integrate Statistica models into this popular deployment language.
over 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica Future Consideration

Custom Query global trust (aka Trust-All for custom queries)

Spotfire uses trust feature to prevent malicious scripts from execution. This includes also SQL scripts defined as custom queries. While this feature increases the security of the solution, trusting the queries is troublesome. The IronPython scr...
over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access Future Consideration
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