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    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

    Spotfire Matlab service

    We use data functions written in Matlab. I would like these to be run through a "Spotfire Service for Matlab" just in the same way as the "Spotfire Service for Python" that already exists.
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    Give back the DXP Analyst Option : Allow authoring in web clients

    Some DXP file needs to be un-editable buy Business Author users. In 7.8 we could un check the option "Allow authoring in web clients" in the Document Properties. We lost the function in v10. User can't alreay modify what is in "DashBoard" folder (...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Make it possible to export data to Google Drive from the Spotfire web client and installed client.

    We would like the possibility to export data in CSV and/or Google sheet format from the Spotfire web and installed clients.
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Export 4 Future Consideration

    make required arguments optional for command config-email-notification / config-http-notification

    Please consider make required arguments optional so we can use -e false to disable notification completely. currently we have to specify dummy argument like below, https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/14.6.0/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_ad...
    6 months ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Enhancement to create custom tool API

    Custom tool API allows us to specify the tool name/license/menu category/icon ... These custom menus automatically show up in the 'customize toolbar ...' area. We have a large number of such custom tools that we would like to hide from 'Customize ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration

    Event Based Scheduling (Trigger from a file or schedule)

    Other BI tools that we use have the concept of event based scheduling. So in addition to a schedule firing at a given time/day and frequency the schedule only fires if a designated trigger file can be found or another schedule that this schedule i...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Scheduled Updates 4 Future Consideration

    Standard configuration UI for visualization mod custom properties

    A Visualization Mod typically comes with a number of settings with which users can configure the appearance or behavior of the Mod. These settings can be either axis selectors or properties. Axes selectors are automatically displayed in visualizat...
    almost 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    add API to get/set canvas styling/theme

    Please add API to get/set canvas styling/theme. One of our customers wants to change is via IronPython for consumer users.
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    The ability to reference C# dll from iron python on web player

    It is very helpful to be able to access C# dll's from Iron python on web player , For now it is only supported on Spotfire installed client and not web player without manually adding the dll to the Node Manager instance modules, which is not conve...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration
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