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    Option to limit web service API invocation for specified time

    This feature is to help control load on the TDV server from web service calls. Organizations with hardware limits or web services that pull large amounts of data could use this feature to keep load on their server in check without causing unintend...
    over 1 year ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / web services 0 Future Consideration

    TZCONVERTOR SQL import failure

    In cases where the data source provides a valid date but an "unacceptable" timestamp, SQL imports fail with an error message stating "Illegal instant due to time zone offset transition." While this issue is not uncommon across various systems, we'...
    almost 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / sql support 0 Future Consideration

    Dashboard layout should support snapping to grid or orientation lines

    when there are many widgets in a dashboard, it is really hard to keep them all arranged in a nice manner. e.g. have small widgets left and right and a bigger one in the middle - the user ends up in using a physical ruler holding to the screen to b...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Adding an "Uncheck All" (for columns) box when adding a Data Table

    Having an option to uncheck all boxes in the "Excel Import Settings" Wizard, when loading a table or file into spotfire, would save lots of time instead of having to manually uncheck all the columns you do not want included. Thank you.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Don't deprecate the export/import automation services tasks

    The "export library items" and "import library items" automation services tasks have been deprecated as the server configuration command line has been updated to include similar features. We make use of automation services tasks within scripts tha...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 2 Future Consideration

    Change (Empty) in axis values of cross table

    When a value for a column on the axis of a cross table is missing, "(Empty)" is displayed. This looks awful. It should be possible to display those entries as empty cells. It can be done by using something like sn([axis column], "") for strings or...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Column Sorting in Property Controls

    When creating property controls that use column selections the display order is no configurable. The columns are listed in the order they are added to the data table, not in the order they are selected and not even in alphabetical order. From a us...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Alternative to comparison circles algorithm in Box Plot

    The idea of the comparison circles (statistically compare data sets associated to individual boxes) is great but since it is limited to the average it kind of falls short in most scenarios. Comparing the underlying distribution is a more generic a...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Planning to implement

    Option to display guidelines that track horizontally and vertically across visualisation charts

    Could we have "on hover" guidelines that track a mouse movement over a chart and help the user to orientate his or herself against the X and Y axes' values? This is particularly for scatter charts. It would be great if we could also display the ex...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Hide markers on Scatter Chart

    Add the option to hide markers on scatter graph and only show the line connectors. Currently, markers can only be displayed in the background, made very small and have relatively innocuous shapes assigned to them but this creates an untidy appeara...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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