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    Decouple Database Selection from Data Source

    When creating a Data Source, most Connectors currently include the selection of a Database and the Schema Browser shows just the Tables in the chosen Database. It would be preferable to just set the server cection details and then list all availab...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
    102 VOTE

    Replace all Tooltips with jQuery qTip type look, feel and config

    Currently tooltips are difficult to use effectively in Spotfire BUT essential in value adding to the users experience. If you allowed a user to set up a tooltip with some base options like: hover-over : true/false; follow-mouse: true/false; style-...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Allow customization of NotificationService timeout duration

    Currently, notifications displayed through the NotificationService in the top-right corner disappear automatically after a fixed period of time.It would be valuable to allow developers to configure the notification timeout duration, for example: ...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    High DPI support

    When using the Spotfire Analyst client on High DPI screens now it runs in high DPI compatibility mode: all pixels are scaled to larger pixels. Adding native high DPI support would allow the visual splendor of Spotfire to shine so much brighter. Wi...
    over 2 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration
    101 VOTE

    Configurable sorting in cross table headers

    Currently cross tables are presented with a default sorting, as alphanumeric ascending in precedence of column/row positions. This default can now be adjusted to sort based on the results, but not on the values in the headings themselves. Cros...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    Cache job auto-restart upon failure

    We would like the option to automatically reattempt a cache job when it fails. We have some public api data sources that randomly fail from time to time, and they succeed if you just restart them. It would save us time and failure alerts if they c...
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching / data movement 2 Future Consideration

    Ability to disable storing data in the undostack to prevent continuous increase in memory consumption when data is refreshed

    Per request from the Support team (Case#02157929), I am creating this urgent feature request. The customer(s) are severely impacted by the continuous memory consumption when the open template (a dashboard) has automatic refresh every n minutes. At...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / API 5 Future Consideration

    Add a file adapter to connect to parquet files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to parquet files to read in data.
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 3 Future Consideration

    Truncate cache buckets instead of delete

    Currently buckets have all their records deleted, and then the new records are inserted. In the database this means 2 write operations, and is a major cause of index fragmentation. Most databases allow you to truncate the table, which is only an a...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Planning to implement

    Progress Bar in Spotfire Analyst while executing Script

    We would like to have a progress bar in Spotfire Analyst to indicate that a script is currently being executed. Currently there is no way to tell natively if a script is running in the background. We would expect this to look similar to the web pl...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration
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