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    Allow in-memory functions for streaming data

    Custom expressions for streaming data are more limited than for in-memory data. Also marking can cause issues. Mostly I only want to calculate columns or expressions on visuals only for the data currently in Spotfire. Would there be some way to ap...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management / Data Streams 0 Future Consideration

    Overlay Property Controls on Charts

    Overlay property controls on charts to reduce need for reserved text areas and so actions/filters related to visuals can be kept close to each other.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Connectors Load Type Visibility

    Show whether in memory or in database when creating connection as you often don't realise it defaults to in-database. Change default to in-memory or allow it to be configurable in options or administration manager.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Custom Date Format on Axes

    The ability to input the date display type similar to Excel format codes (e.g., YYYY, YY-MMM, etc.) – without overriding / depending on the underlying column format
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    SVG in Buttons

    Allow SVG images in buttons to create nice menus.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Choose the default data type when importing Excel files

    It would be useful to have a default data type setting when importing Excel files. This would prevent the user from having to select a certain type for each column if they wanted them all to be the same. For example, if a user wants all of the col...
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Change default load method when using a Data Connector.

    By default, when creating a data table from a Data Connector, the default load method is always set to Keep Data External unless the Load method on the data connector has been set Imported Data Only Similarly, when opening a data connector from th...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    need "go to folder" and "find dependencies / references" for user-driven library search

    It's great to be able to search the library from the "open" + button. But, there needs to be a context menu item to go to the parent folder, like there is in the Library Admin Tool. And there needs to be an item to find the references/dependencies...
    about 2 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 0 Future Consideration

    Use `MapChart ` API to programmatically duplicate map layer

    #### Goal Use `MapChart ` API to duplicate certain map layer across all/any map viz in .dxp. #### Issue The [`MapChart` API](https://docs.tibco.com/pub/doc_remote/sfire_dev/area/doc/api/TIB_sfire-analyst_api/html/T_Spotfire_Dxp_Application_Visuals...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Want to display hh:mm in the Y-Axis of Line Charts, Bar Charts, Combination Charts, etc..

    We are working with a customer that would like to display the amount of hours a plain has fly in a specific period of time. They want to see it, not just in a tabular visualisation, but in the Y-Axis of varios visualisations in a hh:mm format (ex....
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
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