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    Add GeoJSON column type

    Spotfire can already parse geoJSON files and ESRI using geoJSON as a type to be accessed through their API. If the column type existed we could use geoJSON through a database connection to TDV.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Maps 1 Future Consideration

    Make Spotfire URLs more user friendly and allow for co-branding

    In 7.5 and above when users open a report in Web Player they will see an URL similar to this: server/spotfire/wp/render/C_nAons1wzreNS-mxU/analysis?file=/ReportPath/ReportName&waid=hJB-6u25O02ACz5uOtCG--211636b4deSuN9&wavid=0 The "C_nAons1...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 2 Future Consideration

    Official support to connect to MongoDB via JDBC

    Although you can use a JDBC driver on the Spotfire server and connect to MongoDB via Info Links, this is not yet officially supported as I was told. Consequently I do not get support as I'm having weird issues. Since Mongo is more and more used, o...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 6 Future Consideration

    Option to explicitly select the columns to include when inserting columns (rather than only exclude columns)

    When inserting columns into a data table within Spotfire, the user selects the column(s) to include in the last window. However, what is actually happening behind the scenes is an Exclude Columns transformation where the columns the user hasn't se...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Enable Spotfire expression language for in-database connections

    When working with external data one cannot use the standard Spotfire expressions but has to change to the dialect of the given data source (e.g. when working with an Impala connection a Left([Column_A],1) for imported data has to be changed to Sub...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    adding an option to create a complete contribution matrix to MSPC deployment

    It would be great if MSPC deployment node offers a table output for the complete contribution of the variables. Currently this is possible only via selecting the time point and the latent variable. It is possible via SVB with for loops, but they a...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 To be Reviewed

    Apply colors only in Python

    I want to be able to do through python what I can do through the GUI when I apply a coloring scheme with "colors only" to a bar chart. It seems like by default it applies by values. I want a button to be able to re-color my categorical bins when I...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / API / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Set default color scheme from preference

    Set default color scheme from Spotfire's preference. The point is to have a color scheme already set for all users, that represents the colors of the company, what is defined by the UX team. So the users didn't need to apply it everytime.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Need UI checkbox to configure data functions to run in Synchronous mode

    Data function can be executed Synchrnously from API but there is no UI controls in data function configuration window to enable this option!As a normal user, I want to create a data function and I need it to execute synchronously ... today there i...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Pre-built JS for Text Area options

    Being able to use HTML / CSS and JS in text areas is amazing. I so often hear from analysts they don't use HTML/JS etc. We should have prebuilt options such as menus, buttons, accordions / popups etc people can drop and configure in text areas so ...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 0 Future Consideration
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