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    Spotfire Data Functions need to support native 'String List' type as inputs or outputs

    Spotfire's Data Funcitons are among the top differentiators from its competitor tools and I use them often to create very valuable and sophisticated user work-flows that takes a complex process and makes it seem trivial. In creating a specific wor...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration

    support TSSS to work with Web Player on Linux and Automation Services on Linux

    According to product document, "Data functions using TIBCO Spotfire® Statistics Services are not supported in Web Player or Automation Services on Linux." https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/12.0.0/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    Sort within a hierarchy

    When a hierarchy is used in a bar chart category axis, and then the bars are sorted by value it sorts all the bars by absolute value, without any consideration for the hierarchy. This is not ideal as the reason for setting-up the hierarchy at time...
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 2 Future Consideration

    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    almost 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Analyst - Display value of column width / row height during resize operation

    When a column is resized in Spotfire Analyst, it would be great to have the value displayed, like in Microsoft Excel. The same applies to the row height. Eventually have the same features for the Web Player. Thank you for your consideration. Kind ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add more automation actions - refresh schema

    Hello, Please add a task in automation services to refresh the schema for a file. Currently this is a manual process for each file so if there was a way to automate this behavior via AS at a certain cadence it would be extremely helpful.
    8 months ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 0 Future Consideration

    Alias Columns in Information Designer Using Custom SQL

    I've noticed that on occasions where I'm required to use custom SQL in my information links that I'm unable to alias the column names. I'm all for renaming columns within a DXP, but several of my users share information links. This can become cumb...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Export Conversations

    I'm designing a dashboard and the team using it will be making a lot of notes with the Conversation tool. The team hasn't asked for this yet, but it would be great if the conversations from dashboards could be exported into something along the lin...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Export 5 Future Consideration

    Web Player - Scheduler to restart Node Manager services

    As per current way the Web Player works, images are cached in analyses and not refreshed. The only way to get an updated image would be to restart the service. The scheduler would then restart the Web Player service in question in order to get upd...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Enable table reload with prompt from IronPython in Web player

    Table reload is available to be triggered as a script in the client, the same is not available on the web. This leads for inconsistent report design and the need to try and train users to access the menu for reload but can configure action buttons...
    about 6 years ago in Spotfire / API 3 Future Consideration
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