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    Support for SQLite databases

    SQLite is the most popular database and an awesome (free) technology for quick prototyping. It is more stable than csv files, more scaleable than XLSX sheets and more flexible than many Big Data solutions. Allowing proper interfacing with SQLite d...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Legend Marking for Segments

    Marking from the legend is not currently supported for color mode "Segments". This is not intuitive. It is confusing that sometimes users can mark a color from the color by legend, but not always. We'd like to be able to mark when using segments a...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Provide command-line utilities to handle web player service instance

    Provide command-line utilities to handle web player service instance with below functions; 1. Check status (alive or dead) of named web player instance in named node. 2. Stop named web player instance in named node. 3. Start named web player insta...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Data Canvas UX: Column datatype formatting inside Data Canvas

    See attachment The Data Canvas is a great place to manage, wrangle, cleanse, and enrich data. However, the options for formatting column data types are not found within it. You must leave the canvas and go to the Data Panel column handler then s...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 2 Future Consideration

    UX: Generally better script management (all scripts)

    I know there are different places to script for different functions, but would be good to have a central place to write/manage all scripts in a document. If I am using IronPython with TERR, I have to go in-and-out of two different script handlers ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 1 Future Consideration

    API support for mapping UI elements to marked rows in visualization mods

    Add API to make it easier to map UI elements to marked rows when developing a visualization mod. The API could typically support SVG intersection and HTML element box intersection.
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Mods 0 Future Consideration

    Option where Multiple Prompts should be displayed in a single screen

    By default user needs to go through all the Prompts step by step to get the data. Requirement is when multiple prompts are there in report all needs to be displayed in single page and one click is required after the data input/selection with all t...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Add additional information to Information Link prompts

    It would be great if you could add instructions to prompts presented via Information Links. At the moment, all a user gets to see is the database column name when presented with a prompt choice. It would be great if, in the Information Designer, w...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

    Display total elapsed time in file open details dialog

    Snowball's chance in hell, but what the hell. The open from library dialog shows fine grained detail on elapsed times for the various load operation components, and it all looks very impressive, but it does not add up the total elapsed time for th...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Please add a progress bar on the Spotfire Analyst client when downloading updates

    It would be useful to have a progress bar when downloading updates so that users can see if any data is actually being downloaded. On many occasions there have been large updates which give the false impression that the update process is dead whic...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 0 Future Consideration
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