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    Ensure `data.table::patterns()` compatibility in future release

    data.table is preferred when working with large data sets for speed, and data.table::patterns() facilitates column(s) selection with regular expression, which is useful for concise code, as oppose to doing this as a separate line item.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R 0 Future Consideration

    The ability to lock column width on Cross Table Headers

    Currently, if the labels in a Cross Table change with the data then the header width isn't locked and as new data comes it looks terrible. There should be some sort of ability to lock the header width to a fixed size that doesn't change.
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Validate data sources from a report.

    It would be helpful to validate that all data sources are accessible for a report. If an information link, or network shared file gets removed, the report might only indicate a problem when updating data, but not be very clear when it does. Being ...
    11 months ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    put full path of currently opened dxp file into document property

    Customer wish that Analyst can put full path of currently opened dxp file (whether from local file or from library) into document property (as a runtime value) automatically. He needs to pass this path to Python data function and do something with...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Plot data from two tables in the same coordinate system without restructuring the data

    Sometimes I have two or more pairs of measures that I want to plot on the same chart like this: To do this in Spotfire today, you have to restructure the data so that there is only 1 set of x values and use Color by to "Line ID". Although this is ...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Add support for Presto as a data source to TDV

    TDV needs an adapter for Prestodb.io. This idea is for simple data source access, not caching or data ship. If this is of interest to you, please indicate in the comments the use case and level of support you need, i.e., not only data source but c...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 Unlikely to implement

    Improve "Organize Filters" dialog

    Currently it is really cumbersome to organize the filters, especially if you have many data tables and/or many columns in a data table. Improvements should include (but are not limited to): ability to search for columns like in other dialogs to b...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 2 Future Consideration

    Allow Python Node to ouput Text spreadsheet columns

    Sometimes you just want your data to be formatted as Text and not as Double. But the Python node for Statistica ALWAYS returns data frames as Doubles with Text Labels. This can cause issues if the field contains both text and numbers, where the te...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 1 To be Reviewed

    Add zebra striping to a crosstable and graphical tables

    Add alternating row colors to Spotfire cross and graphical tables for consistency with regular tables Here is a workaround https://community.spotfire.com/articles/spotfire/javascript-row-styling-for-spotfire-tables-r3471/
    6 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    How to realize different specification lines in the same visualization trellis by column and the specification can change by different column

    Hi Developers, Please refer to the attached template where we have a scatter plot representing 4 columns for the y-axis and trellised by column names. Each one of 4 y-axis parameters has different specification limits. But we found all the spec li...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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