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    Improve performance of query retrieving user authorization for more than 300% by removing order by statement

    We discovered a Spotfire query that retrieves user authorization, which has the highest cost and is used more than 400 times an hour on our system. It contains an "order by" statement. If this statement is removed it performs 300% faster. Although...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Installation 7 Future Consideration

    Truncate cache buckets instead of delete

    Currently buckets have all their records deleted, and then the new records are inserted. In the database this means 2 write operations, and is a major cause of index fragmentation. Most databases allow you to truncate the table, which is only an a...
    over 3 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / caching 1 Planning to implement

    Limit system resource (CPU, memory, RAM, etc.) an analysis may consume

    Provide the ability to set maximum limits on the system resources (CPU, memory, RAM, etc.) that an analysis running on Spotfire Server may consume. This will prevent individual analyses from consuming all available resources and making the server ...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    please expose API to export visualization to excel file

    please expose API to export visualization to excel file, aka utilize below functionality in IronPython script or Action Mods https://ideas.spotfire.com/ideas/SPF-I-42 SPOT-2150 14.0.0 Export tabular visualizations to Microsoft Excel with preserved...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Please add automation services task to export visualization to excel file

    please add task to export visualization to excel file, aka utilize below functionality in Automation Service tasks https://ideas.spotfire.com/ideas/SPF-I-42 SPOT-2150 14.0.0 Export tabular visualizations to Microsoft Excel with preserved layout, s...
    8 months ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration
    111 VOTE

    Set scale label intervals

    * In a DecisionSite Client scatter plot, you can set tick intervals(Properties dialog > Axes > Add > Ticks > Interval) * In a DXP scatter plot, you only have the Max number of scale labels setting(Properties > Y-axis > Scale labe...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 3 Future Consideration

    Spotfire web data connector

    Spotfire should support loading data from web data sources. For example cloud drives and tables in web pages.
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Enable Execution of Database Statements in (Custom) Queries

    If one fires a custom query, Spotfire builds a SELECT * FROM () around the query. This means that only queries with a SELECT statement are supported. However, I often have the case that I want to use other SQL statements. For example, the statemen...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
    109 VOTE

    Find dependencies within an analysis

    There should be a better way to list / find the dependencies within a file so the consequences of changes can be foreseen. What stuff in my file will break if I decide to remove or change a: - (calculated) column- document property- marking- visua...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Library 0 Future Consideration
    107 VOTE

    Reverse Sort order option for date columns

    As a user, I want to be able to sort columns including various date formats in order to view data in chronological or reverse chronological order. Should support major date formats including: January 2012January 2 20122 January 20122012 January 21...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration
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