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    Support any upgrade activity with zero downtime

    We support a large global Spotfire Consumer user base, most of whom don't know that they're using Spotfire (they just know they use 'such and such dashboard'). As such, we need the ability to apply any changes to our environment without user impac...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration

    export to pdf based off property controls

    property controls have the ability to trigger ironpython scripts that can configure (filters, visualization properties) multiple visualizations simultaneously
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Export 2 Future Consideration

    Text Area dimensions: Reduce the minimum height of the Text Area. Also, have option to remove scroll bar from text area.

    Attached image shows a drop-down property control with font size = 10. There is too much padding between the property control and the bottom border of the text area. Please allow for the minimum height of the Text Area to be half of what it is now...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Copy selected/deselected filter values

    For troubleshooting purpose, I would like to be able to right-click and copy to the clipboard either the selected or deselected values from a specific filter. Shown in green colour in the attached screenshot. An additional features could be the po...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration

    Modify the thickness of gridlines

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    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 4 Future Consideration

    DataFunction support for external data (in-db)

    The current DataFunction paradigm only allows for sending data from and to the Spotfire in-memory data engine. For a Spotfire user, a Spotfire data table is a Spotfire data table, whether it is external or not. For data science and analysis applic...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Increase thickness of lines in error bars

    Would like to be able to change the line width of the error bars in a bar chart.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Allow customization of the CREATE TABLE DDL for cache creation

    Allow a developer to customize the CREATE TABLE DDL when creating cache tables so that specific clauses for logging, distributed by, tpartitioning or storage parameters can be added to the CREATE statement. This could be handed edited by the devel...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Future Consideration

    Determine column types using type information in data set rather than data values

    Spotfire infers column types by examining the values in (the first 1000) rows of the data set being loaded. This generally works well but makes mistakes often enough that manual correction becomes laborious. A case in point is when real-valued dat...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Add control switches for LDAP safe-synchronization behavior

    In some scenarios with temporal network connectivity issues, when using LDAP synchronization and safe-synchronization enabled, there are sync issues on WARN level, so the user sync continues and "succeeds" and, afterwards, so does the group sync. ...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration
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