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    Go language binding for StreamBase Client API

    Starting to get some input that there are use cases for Go language applications (such as Flogo) to be able to send (and presumably receive) tuples to and from StreamBase Input and Output Streams. Entering this as an idea for a new feature. Here i...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire Streaming 5 Future Consideration

    Manual setting of primary key column (Impala, DB2, etc)

    When using external data, detail visualisations need a primary key in the datasource for markings to be applied. In case of views or custom queries, the resultset has no primary key defined on the database level. Would be great when we could selec...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    API: Set starting folder for LibraryBrowserDialog

    I've confirmed the following with the support team: There is currently no way to set the starting folder when opening the LibraryBrowserDialog via python. I can set the SelectedItem property, but if I set this to a folder in the library, that fold...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Formating Options for Markers Fill and Outline (Colors, Transparency, Dash Type, Width)

    Dear all, There are cases were we want to format the markers of a visualization by setting the fill color white and choosing a color only for the outline of the marker. Just like we do in PowerPoint, we might also want to set the transparency, d...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    Copy all values in a table column

    Spotfire is great for iteratively filtering down to a subset of data. I often use the ability to use a table as details-on-demand. However one limitation is you can only copy a single cell value or the entire table. I often want to copy all values...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Be able to set default values for filters without coding

    In many cases, I would like to set default filters, and there is no out of the box way to do it, it requires some code that my client (and I) want to avoid. for exemple, I need to show by default only the open tickets, but don't want to prevent en...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Terminating python script while it is running

    There a lot of useful functions that are missing when working with python scripts. For example being able to terminate a python script while it is running. There are many ways of adding this into the script such as having the script open a new win...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Natively recognize spatial geometry from Snowflake for Map Charts

    With the snowflake data connector, it would be nice if the Map Chat visualization would natively read and recognize the geometry stored in the spatial table. This would eliminate the need to create all the additional columns spotfire requires as w...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Visualization 0 Planning to implement

    Access miniatures in text areas via the API

    Sometimes the need arises to manipulate a text area using IronPython to change specific parts of the text area. However, when changing the html content of a text area using IronPython you often destroy the Spotfire dynamic contents (calculated v...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Allow triggering a customTool with prompt from IronPython on the web player

    Currently a custom tool can be called from an IP script on the web player. However, prompting is simply ignored. Please implement an API that enables this scenario.
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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