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    add function to convert integer to ascii character and vice versa

    Please add function to convert integer to ascii character and vice versa. Currently we use expression like below to do so, it's ugly & slow and can not cover all ascii chars. case when ([val]>=48) and ([val]<=57) then string([val] - 48) ...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire 10 - Details on Demand hot toggle and lock for pull out filters tab

    Hi, We just upgraded to Spotfire 10. Although overall, it looks great, here are things that I instantly missed from the prior version. 1) The details on demand toggle is gone. This is super important to bring back, because users sometimes close...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

    Color by X-Axis of Heatmap

    It would be very useful to have small color blocks for the x-axis of a heatmap (for example, to show an additional parameter of the data like disease status in clustering)
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire API provide access to the time a data source was loaded

    In Data Table Properties, the Source Information tab lists information about each data source in a data table, including the time it was loaded. I would like to retrieve the data loaded time using the Spotfire API, so I write an IronPython script ...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Schedule update refresh via command prompt

    We would like to know if we can execute Schedule update refresh using command prompt. It will be helpful to execute the schedule update after successfully completion of certain job.
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Already exists

    Ability to SFTP an extract from Automation Services Job Builder

    Customers require Business Objects reports to be SFTP'd. As we migrate the Bus Objs reports to Spotfire, we will need the same solution
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    How can transfer filtering schemes from One Prod web to another Prod web version dashboard?

    Means i will select particular filter in 'A' dashboard and i would like to transfer the filters to 'B' dashboard and update the views accordingly in Web
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Copy paste formula for the calculated column

    When we build/create a formula using calculated column, noticed that we are not able to copy the formula after we save it. I think it's very useful if we can copy the formula and paste it to the new calculated column when we needed. Especially whe...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Will not implement

    XML Escape/Unescape Functions

    In order to facilitate interaction with XML based data sources (for example, REST endpoints returning XML data), it would be beneficial for TDV to have built-in functions for escaping, and unescaping, XML data. Currently, there is no functionality...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Will not implement

    DocumentChanged/DocumentClosing trigger needs to fire when template fails to open ...

    We need to detect the case when a template fails to open in WebPlayer ... We were expecting that "DocumentChanged" and "DocumentClosing" triggers would be fired when document fails to open in webplayer for any reason. Unfortunatly, this is not the...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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