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    135 VOTE

    Add Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) capability on Windows Platform

    Requesting Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) capability as a supported feature on Windows Platform. At the time of this request, this is only supported on Linux but it would be great to have the same feature supported on Windows Servers as well
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 2 Will not implement
    200 VOTE

    API for Text Area Action and Property Controls

    Developers would like to be able to create text areas, properties and input controls in the text area that manipulate those properties. One example would be to have a tool that would perform an S+ calculation. A user of Spotfire could launch a too...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / API 11 Future Consideration

    Improve Select Column Dialog: Resizable Window and Horizontal Scrollbar Needed

    When using the Select Column dialog (Columns selection window) in Spotfire, there are several usability issues: The dialog window is not resizable, making it difficult to view long column names. The Available columns and Selected columns list ...
    about 1 month ago in Spotfire / Analytics 1 Needs Info

    Tibco should create a "Calendar" visualization type in Spotfire.

    I always find myself struggling to find a good place to create calendar visualizations to add to presentations or project documents. In discussions with coworkers we came to the conclusion that this should absolutely be a chart-type in Spotfire. I...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration
    183 VOTE

    Table and column auto-width, min-width and in-column search

    Currently tables in Spotfire look very ugly, not user friendly, have static widths and always laden with scrollbars and no built-in search functionality. Our users didn't want to use them. If you look at jQuery dataTables as an example of what a m...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration
    109 VOTE

    Out-of-the-box dashboard for usage metrics

    Add a default usage metrics dashboard for Spotfire Library objects to help administrators and authors understand who is using their tools. Should sit on the existing log infrastructure, it just seems silly for each TIBCO customer to have to make t...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration
    145 VOTE

    Load Parquet, ORC and Avro data files from Amazon S3 and HDFS

    Spotfire should be able to connect to and read Parquet, ORC and Avro files from Amazon S3 and HDFS.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 9 Future Consideration
    146 VOTE

    Version Control integration with Deployment Manager

    Deployment manager needs to be able to access resources that were checked in by Studio to deploy to higher level environments to promote resources from dev to test to prod.
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / deployment 7 Future Consideration

    Allow authentication tokens to be passed to external URLs when rendering images from cells

    Currently if images in table cells are sourced from a URL which requires authentication (e.g. S3 bucket), then it's not possible to pass existing credentials to the URL. For example if using OpenID to connect, the expectation is that the access to...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 5 Likely to implement

    Re-organize Data Canvas Data Sources

    I wish to re-organize and/or color code the Data Table order in the Data Canvas to keep related data sources visually close to each other as a project is built out.
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration
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