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    Mods API for formatting of calculated values

    To render calculated values in a mod (e.g. to display a continuous scale) there is a need for an API to get the values formatted according to the settings made in Spotfire, similar to what's achieved with row.continuous("Y").formattedValue().
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 1 Future Consideration
    128 VOTE

    New property controls: checkbox and radio button

    Currently we only have checkboxes and radio buttons for filters, but often filters doesn't give enough flexibility to developers. How I imagine the new property controls to work: - checkbox: it would work similarly to List Box multiple select pr...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 7 Future Consideration

    Allow any type of authentication for the SharePoint connector; now, Spotfire only supports OAuth2.

    Customers are trying to configure their Azure AD for SAML authentication, but the Spotfire SharePoint connector does not support this.
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration
    124 VOTE

    in-visualization drill down on chart axes hierarchies and cross-table axes levels

    Currently when you have a hierarchy on either a cross-table OR a visualisation axes ie. Year->Month->Day or Country->State->town... you cannot drill through the Hierachy - only expand it to show EVERY single value across every level of...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 13 Future Consideration

    Allow urls and external content to be opened from Mods

    Currently urls and external content is blocked in mods, so it is not possible to add a link in a Mod for someone to click on. It would be very useful to be able to display links in Mods such as links to other Spotfire tools, external content and i...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / API 2 Future Consideration
    107 VOTE

    Allow changing grand total and subtotal names in cross tabs.

    Would like ability to change the name of the Grand Total/Subtotal columns and rows in a crosstab. Perhaps add a variable or expression to show what the subtotal is referring to, e.g. Subtotal Product.
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration
    119 VOTE

    Calculated Columns that Filter With Data

    Calculated Columns are powerful but often not useful if they don't recalculated based on filtered data. We've developed scrips to flag filtered records and calculate over that flag but this requires the user to click a button every time they filte...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 1 Future Consideration

    Provide a setting to control automatic column addition in joins.

    Currently, for every join, columns that were added at a later moment to one of the sub/right tables are automatically joined into all joins where this table is used. In most cases this is not desired. Proposed feature should work by either turning...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    expose spotfire's logging API for custom extension to use

    This idea originated from a discussion with the engineering team. We have been using the standard log4net API to write to Spotfire's standard log files by referencing the log4net.dll bundled with the product. + Spotfire.Dxp.SupportDiagnostics.log ...
    about 1 month ago in Spotfire / API 0 To be Reviewed
    116 VOTE

    Better support of web services

    When you need to consume data from a web service in Spotfire there are different options like implementing a custom data source, develop an Iron Python script, use an R script on your Stats server or use something like Composite or Jboss Teiid tha...
    about 10 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 5 Future Consideration
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