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    Resize Cross-Table row heights automatically as per data (especially when exporting to PDF)

    When exporting a report to PDF, it would be helpful to view all cross-table data. Currently if the row height is not expanded manually by the user, all cross-table data is not visible in the PDF export.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    2D graphs such as Quantile-Quantile Plot need to expose their underlying data

    2D graphs such as Quantile-Quantile Plot need to expose their underlying data so it can be surfaced to Spotfire for visualization. With Statistica being the Data Science engine behind Spotfire, this is a critical ask from prospective customers who...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire client loader should renegotiate a full handshake with the server if it receives a malformed ticket.

    Currently it drops the connection. It would be far more elegant to renegotiate a full handshake.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 3 Needs Info

    Update more than one data table in a file but not all

    I have files with many different data tables. At times I need to update say 5 of the 10 data tables I have. Currently I have to independently update each of the data tables or refresh all the data tables in the file. I would like the ability to se...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Add an aggregation method to find the Nth most common value

    MostCommon is a pretty useful aggregation method, for example when you have a large set of defective parts across different products and these are defective for different reasons and you want to see the most prominent error say per product. Very e...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Provide method (CanReplaceDataFlow) for DataTableDataSourceOperation class

    For File DataSource and Information Link Data Source it is possible to replace only parts of how the data table is constructed w/o impacting the rest of the data table construction (see e.g. https://community.tibco.com/s/article/How-to-replace-the...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Mandatory and optional prompts

    There seems to be no means to define a prompt as mandatory or optional as there is on Information links. Connector prompts should be possible to configure as mandatory or optional.
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    support to load data from csv/txt/excel etc files via FTP protocol

    One of our customers would like to have the ability to load data from csv/txt/excel etc files via FTP protocol.
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    propagate Document Properties value change to Data Transformation

    We know that if Document Properties is referenced by an expression for Calculated Columns or Custom Expression, if the value of the Document Properties is changed, then the expression is evaluated automatically. However if Document Properties is r...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    UX: Panning when zoom slider activated

    Add some mechanism for panning when a zoom slider is activated. The mouse wheel currently only adjusts zoom level. Would be nice if ctrl+scroll would pan up/down. Or right-click + drag would pan around the chart. Currently, to pan you have to tink...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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