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    Option for Responsive Textarea and Cross Table

    This feature will be useful because textarea will automatically adjust to fit to your screen. I think this feature will benefit the developers and end user. Especially organizations with different type of devices which will produce different scree...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    Data Table Description

    I need the ability to add a detailed description of a data table in the Spotfire client. When I have multiple data tables in a complex analysis, it is easy to lose track of what purpose each data table serves. I experimented with adding a new Data...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    API: Set starting folder for LibraryBrowserDialog

    I've confirmed the following with the support team: There is currently no way to set the starting folder when opening the LibraryBrowserDialog via python. I can set the SelectedItem property, but if I set this to a folder in the library, that fold...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Status bar makes it impossible to log into Spotfire App for Android 15

    I submitted this as a support ticket, but no solution was available for this so this is my way of giving feedback for the Spotfire mobile app. Android 15 has a known issue where the edge-to-edge display makes the status bar and notification bar bl...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Mobile 3 Future Consideration

    Create new filtering scheme

    Once user sets a group of filters, an option to 'set current filters as new filtering scheme' would save a lot of time and effort in creating multiple filter schemes. Some of this can be achieved with bookmarks but users want to create multiple fi...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Manual setting of primary key column (Impala, DB2, etc)

    When using external data, detail visualisations need a primary key in the datasource for markings to be applied. In case of views or custom queries, the resultset has no primary key defined on the database level. Would be great when we could selec...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    Terminating python script while it is running

    There a lot of useful functions that are missing when working with python scripts. For example being able to terminate a python script while it is running. There are many ways of adding this into the script such as having the script open a new win...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Limit concurrent loading datatables in custom data source and Information Link

    A prevention function is needed to prevent some users from occupying DB sessions or resources by loading large amounts of data. AS-IS : Not available TO-BE : Provides a setting function to limit the number of concurrent loading datatables in cu...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Shorter loading time for custom data sources

    When loading a file with a custom data source, the loading time becomes longer in proportion to the number of columns. So, they need to requires shortening of loading time. AS-IS : Repeat processing as many columns TO-BE : - Repetitive proces...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Be able to set default values for filters without coding

    In many cases, I would like to set default filters, and there is no out of the box way to do it, it requires some code that my client (and I) want to avoid. for exemple, I need to show by default only the open tickets, but don't want to prevent en...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Filters 0 Future Consideration
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