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    improve button (action control) appearance

    One of our customers wants the button (action control, typically added in a text area) appearance to be improved. For this use case the button is associated to an IronPython script that could take a while to run. Regarding the behavior of the Acti...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / Text Area / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    add option to enable datatable color stripe as default

    In Document properties, there's an option of "Show a color stripe for related tables". This color stripe is useful when loading multiple datatables, but it's disabled as default. Please add option to enable datatable color stripe as default.
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add zoom gradations to zooming on map charts

    When using a map chart I often run into the problem where one zoom level is too far out but the next closest is too far in and it quite a large jump from the previous zoom level. I would like the addition of more granular zoom levels. Potentially ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Implement connector for Azure Data Explorer (ADX) in Spotfire

    ADX is part of Kepler whose backend is Snowflake.ADX is microsoft's data warehouse technology which has live high frequency data. Users are highly interested to leverage this opportunity to be able to see live data on a Spotfire analysis by able t...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    manage text area with business author

    Text area is very user friendly but business author do not have any access to this functionnality. Should be great for all business author to be abble to create and manage text areas.
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 2 Future Consideration

    new Column Properties: need to select the active table.

    The new Column Properties, when activated via the menu, needs to go to the table behind the currently active visualization (as I believe it used to do), instead of forcing the author to scan to find the needed table first. We have users with dozen...
    3 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Native conversion function for date in ISO 8601 format

    There is no current built in function to convert a string containing a date in ISO 8601 format. Could TIBCO create this conversion function? This would avoid using substrings and DateTime. Thank you for your consideration.
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    Enable a command line option to detect if a Tibco Spotfire area is updated, to get the list of packages of the area and to upgrade a single WebPlayer instance

    We create spotfire extensions and we test them in WebPlayer automatically using selenium, but right now we cannot detect if a given area is updated, get the list of packages in the area or update a WebPlayer instance automatically, so we cannot in...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 3 Future Consideration

    Customization of Labels and Zooming on Maps

    Map Labels - If the user wants to place labels above data points on a map, sometimes the locations Spotfire chooses end up covering other data points or making the map look too busy. It would be ideal to allow the user to click and drag on the lab...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Vertical lines with categorical x-axis

    I am creating financial charts, and would like to add vertical lines at certain dates. This is only available if the x-axis is set to 'Continuous', but my financial data does not contain data for weekends/holidays, and setting to 'Continuous' fill...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration
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