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    Create Local Administrators, so that Analysts can manage access to their libraries

    We would like to give Spotfire Analysts the responsibility to add users and/or user groups themselves, so they can manage their own user groups and/or library permissions. Looking at the differences of the Administrator and Analyst Licenses the pe...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration
    184 VOTE

    Table and column auto-width, min-width and in-column search

    Currently tables in Spotfire look very ugly, not user friendly, have static widths and always laden with scrollbars and no built-in search functionality. Our users didn't want to use them. If you look at jQuery dataTables as an example of what a m...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration
    182 VOTE

    Better support of web services

    When you need to consume data from a web service in Spotfire there are different options like implementing a custom data source, develop an Iron Python script, use an R script on your Stats server or use something like Composite or Jboss Teiid tha...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration

    Tibco should create a "Calendar" visualization type in Spotfire.

    I always find myself struggling to find a good place to create calendar visualizations to add to presentations or project documents. In discussions with coworkers we came to the conclusion that this should absolutely be a chart-type in Spotfire. I...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration
    145 VOTE

    Load Parquet, ORC and Avro data files from Amazon S3 and HDFS

    Spotfire should be able to connect to and read Parquet, ORC and Avro files from Amazon S3 and HDFS.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 9 Future Consideration
    109 VOTE

    Out-of-the-box dashboard for usage metrics

    Add a default usage metrics dashboard for Spotfire Library objects to help administrators and authors understand who is using their tools. Should sit on the existing log infrastructure, it just seems silly for each TIBCO customer to have to make t...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Library 1 Future Consideration

    Support custom formatting when exporting visualizations to Excel

    Currently, when custom formatting is configured in a visualization (e.g., a cross table) and exported to Excel, the formatting is not retained. Please add a functionality to ensure that the Excel export matches exactly what is displayed inside Spo...
    4 months ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration
    166 VOTE

    Ability to work simultaneously on a dxp and merge afterwards

    We have cases where several developers work on different tabs of the same dxp file. This creates a challenge in combining the work afterwards. Especially if new document properties, IP scripts, calculated columns have been introduced, you more or ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 6 Future Consideration

    Polar Plot ability to use radians

    Currently polar plot can only take Radius and degrees, most tools in semiconductor output data in radians. Would be great to add this instead of needing to calculate and convert.
    24 days ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Analyze more columns in Probit plot

    In the Probit plot visualization, you cannot add more columns to x-axis, only 1 is possible today. In "Trellis" and "Color by" you have an option (Column names), but becuase there is no option to pick more columns in the x-axis, you cannot leverag...
    24 days ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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