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Automation Service job should provide a unique job ID

When running jobs in Automation services, we need to have a unique job ID per running job that is accessible via public API. Currently, I was unable to find such public job ID that can be used! Use case: When we execute jobs in Automation services...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

API to detect when Spotfire is crashing

We need an event that is triggered when Spotfire crashes ... This is already available in .net using: AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException But unfortunatly it does not work from within Spotfire! In our case, we keep track on when professiona...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

Fix API that detects Spotfire is closing

The following API in Spotfire application.Exiting(...) is supposed to fire when Spotfire is exiting. This would allow us to do any necessary cleanups before Spotfire dies. But unfortunatly, this API is not working. The workaround is to use either ...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

Process response data from external actions

Add the ability to process response data from external actions. The data can be used as input to visualizations, further data loading and other analytical tasks, enabling application developers to expand applications containing actions, e.g. reloa...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Actions 0 Future Consideration

Spotfire to support opening excel files generated by openpyxl

Hi I have a python script where it will export excel using 'openpyxl' library, the exported file is normal excel and cen be opened in excel without issue. But when opened in Spotfire, it will prompt for error tha format is incorrect. I hope this c...
over 1 year ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

use custom expression to calculate measures in box plot

Customer would like to use custom expression to calculate measures in box plot, in order to show any customized values in the statistics table.
over 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

Reuse parameters if the same information link prompts are used by multiple tables

Spotfire should allow reuse of parameters if the same information link prompts are used by multiple tables. I have two or more data tables. All tables use information links with the same prompts (say "fund" and a date range). Becomes confusing and...
over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access / Information Services 0 Future Consideration

Expression Editor needed in Document Properties/Properties dialogue

Given that Property Controls such as a list box can contain Custom Expressions, employing Document Properties is a useful method to consistently populate those controls and expressions across multiple dashboard pages. It is not uncommon to have...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire 0 Future Consideration

API for Retrieving ALL Hierarchy Filters

We are using the Javascript API to read a hierarchy filter and observed that this API doesn't support retrieving all the filters (checked and unchecked) in the hierarchy at once. We have to get checked and unchecked filters separately where unchec...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration

Change the DateDiff function so that it returns int instead or real and doesn't return factional numbers

Currently, the DateDiff function factors in the fraction of the whole when returning the differences between year, quarter, month, etc. This can be confusing and hard to use when trying to calculate the differences between months as it will return...
about 5 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 0 Will not implement