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    Add connection type LDAP+StartTLS for Spotfire Server connection to LDAP.

    Currently Spotfire Server can connect to OpenLDAP via LDAP and LDAPS. The preferred way of connection for OpenLDAP is LDAP+StartTLS, which is not provided as connection type at the moment. Our current approach is making only use of LDAP+StartTLS a...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 2 Future Consideration

    Support Integration with Alation Data Catalog Tool

    My company is using Alation for Data Catalog, it would be great for Spotfire to retrieve field definitions from Alation API, so they could be exposed on Spotfire reports. That tool also does not support importing the Information Links and Report D...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

    Percentile() - allow different calculation types (as in TERR) for calculated columns

    TERR allows 3 discrete and 6 continuos calculation variants for quantile() which ends in different results. It can be controlled by optional 3rd parameter. Default value is 7. However expression language used for calculated columns only supports t...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    use value in document properties on filters

    We have many customer asking for this. Typically customer uses input field or drop down list to select a value, then he wants to use this value in filters. Currently filters can only by set by fixed values, customer wants to use values from docume...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Support for application virtualization alternatives

    Currently TIBCO Spotfire supports XenApp for remote launching of client applications. We would like alternative support for application virtualization as XenApp is adding additional costs to our deployment (we are an OEM partner). Some of the alte...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 1 Unlikely to implement

    Footnotes in Visualizations

    I would like the option for the visualization description to optionally appear below the visualization as a footnote. There are times when the description doesn't look right and the bottom would be a better place.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Reading multiple text files from file structure

    Log file data from processing equipment is often automatically exported to a text file at a given location of a file tree. When there is a large amount of machines which generate new log files for each process run, automated gathering of this data...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    API to get number of read rows in DataRowReader

    DataRowReader allows us to know how many columns where loaded but does not have an API to know number of loaded rows. This is an important missing API that is critical to have. As a workaround, I had to wrap my DataRowReader with a custom DataRowR...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Limit number of visualizations a user can have open at one time

    There are cases where a user will attempt to open what is deemed an excessive number of visualizations (or even multiple instances of the same visualization). The cause of this is irrelevant (could be bad programming on a publicly viewed client, o...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Enhance / choose the geo-coding service used in map chart search

    There should be an option for analysts to use alternate address look-up tables / geo-coding services to search and limit geospatial address information displayed in map charts.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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