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    Data ship using 'creating local temp table' instead of 'create table'

    Because of the security of the Korean finance domain, they do not give users creating table permission. Thus, we can't use the data ship feature because the data ship requires a creating authority. We must use the data ship feature to satisfy the ...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Allow several instances of Spotfire Analyst to write to the log file

    Spotfire Analyst 10.3.2, only the last opened Spotfire Analyst is writing to the Dxp.SupportDiagnostics.log file. It is impossible to collect information if the crash occurs for a Spotfire Analyst window other than the last one that has been opene...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 2 Future Consideration

    Export to Google Slides is not available now

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    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Export 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Mods vs Native Visuals

    After working extensively with Mods in production scenarios, one limitation keeps surfacing over and over: Mods operate on a materialized data view, while native visuals operate on top of Spotfire’s semantic layer. This difference might seem subtl...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / API 3 Needs Info

    Enable Spotfire expression language for in-database connections

    When working with external data one cannot use the standard Spotfire expressions but has to change to the dialect of the given data source (e.g. when working with an Impala connection a Left([Column_A],1) for imported data has to be changed to Sub...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Future Consideration

    Add option to change line thickness in Line Chart

    I would like to be able to adjust the thickness of the lines in the Line Chart, like I could do in DecisionSite. Right now I only have the option of changing line styles in Reference Lines and Lines & Curves.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 2 Future Consideration

    Disable/unload/purge/restart files from the scheduled updates page

    If a scheduled updates file hangs it will occupy one slot until the Web Player has been restarted, which is a bad thing to do during production hours. Request(s): 1) Make it possible to cancel/restart a load operation for a file that is currently ...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 0 Future Consideration

    expose compact hierarchy filter for TreeMap

    TreeMaps are important hierarchical visualizations and navigating the hierarchy is an important interaction for treemaps. I do this all the time. So do my friends. Users are tyoically not modifying any of the other settings, but they need to navig...
    5 months ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    keep the Python/TERR/R service engine log if engine crashed

    We noticed that if engine crashed when executing Python/TERR/R data functions on server, the engine will produce a hs_err_<pid>.log under engine's log folder. C:\Windows\Temp\pythonsrv-62047\hs_err_pid15052.log However, above log together wi...
    10 months ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    More Color Themes

    There are 2 major Canvas Styling themes that ship with Spotfire: Light and Dark. Could more be added to ship with Spotfire by default? For ideas, Adobe keeps a trending page of most popular themes in use today: https://color.adobe.com/explore/?f...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration
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