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    Interconnect separate spotfire systems for library and configuration sync

    Some customers run DEV, TST and PROD servers. The occasionally need to copy certain library folders or configurations between these systems. Some customers want to move Spotfire systems to new hardware or the cloud. They need to copy over the whol...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Automation Services Database Logging

    We need to be able to report on Automation Services job failures as this functionality is not present in Automation Services (ie: job failure notification via e-mail when failure occurs). 1.) The JOB_INSTANCES table is purging rows after approxima...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Natively support kml files either as map layers or as data tables that can be shown on map charts

    KML files are commonly used to show features on a map. Being able to use them directly as map layers on a map chart, or otherwise natively support importing them as a data table to then show them on a map chart would be convenient.
    6 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Maps 0 Future Consideration

    Add transformations to external data tables (and database pushback of these)

    Spotfire lacks one very important feature to make data preparation more useful: basic operations on external tables. Other tools offer this in terms of joins, filters for row and columns, simple calculations, aggregation and similar. All these ope...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    allow to add categorical labels to a bar chart in order to show description text or images for each value bar

    Please allow to add categorical labels to a bar chart in order to show description text or images for each value bar. Currently one can add tooltip to do this but tooltip only shows up when mouse hover. The expected behavior is to always show the ...
    9 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Possibility to enable (and restrict) Spotfire Analyst Python and TERR packages to use a customer-defined repository of packages.

    Representing requests from multiple of our customers, we strongly advocate for a solution to requests for the following additional capability (ies) in Spotfire: As a visual data scientist, i want to make sure to use only Python packages in my data...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Label Bar Chart by category Names

    Instead of just showing the value of the bar also be able to show the category name so you don't have to hover over the bar.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Mark all visible rows instead of all filtered rows

    Using Ctrl-A, you can mark all filtered rows in a visualization. However, when there’s additional Data Limiting, this marks more rows than what is actually visible which I find rather unintuitive. Of course you can use the mouse to drag a rectangl...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Copy and Paste Transformations From One Data Table to Another Data Table

    When I want to move a transformation (or many transformations) from one data table to another data table due to similar characteristics between tables (or any other reason), it would be easier to move by copy/paste rather than to recreate the same...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    The ability to reload the Spotfire Data using the Javascript API

    When you embed a Spotifre page into a webpage, you typically remove the toolbar. You do this to make the webpage look like one seamless thing. It would be nice if you can implement a refresh button that talks to the Javascript API that will tell t...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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