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    Custom Column Sorting in Property Controls

    When creating property controls that use column selections the display order is no configurable. The columns are listed in the order they are added to the data table, not in the order they are selected and not even in alphabetical order. From a us...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 1 Future Consideration

    set value of specific document property from marking

    As a report developer of Spotfire, I want the ability of 'set value of specific document property from marking' so that I can trigger an ironpython script once the marked data changed. By this way, we can improve the user experience dramatically.
    almost 7 years ago in Spotfire / Scripting 0 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Connector to Power BI XMLA EndPoints

    Our organization uses a lot of Spotfire but there are other BI Tools in use, particularly Power BI. Our Spotfire teams of late have been getting asked to connect to what are referred to as "XMLA Endpoints". Power BI workspaces use an "XMLA endpoin...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Bar Chart labels don't appear when they should - labeling rule is too primitive and limiting.

    Bar chart labeling is too primitive. There is some predetermined limit (200?), and even though I only show labels for marked bars, and only a few are marked, the labels do not appear, or every nth label appears, because I have too many bars all to...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 5 Future Consideration

    Expand (show /hide) Visualization parts to save space on screen

    When creating "controlled" filters in a Text Area it sometimes takes a lot of my space on the page page. It will be benefitial to enable a show/hide options where you keep a small part of the object when minimized and the rest of the objects on th...
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    Allow a combination chart with bar and scatter (or allow linewidth=0) types. Make one y-axis log scale.

    Trying to make a plot like the attached image with a bar chart, and corresponding a scatter plot overlaid in log scale.
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Replacing a file for an information link from the Data Panel does not prompt Match Columns dialog

    I am using Spotfire version 7.12. I ran into a scenario where I needed to replace a spreadsheet with an information link. The columns in the spreadsheet are named and cased differently than the information link. I expected that when I replaced the...
    about 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 3 Future Consideration

    add hint in SQL SELECT to explicitly choose which table to data-ship to which data source

    At the moment there is a hint to suppress data-ship within a query. I do miss a hint to explicitly tell the TDV engine which table (or view) he must ship to another database (and which database). Reason: in some situations TDV does make decisions ...
    about 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 To be Reviewed

    Support Blob storage as data source

    Hi Team, I am expecting Spotfire to support Blob storage as a data source. As currently, I am trying to find out the way to connect Spotfire to blob and create an analysis. But I am not able to find any way to connect Spotfire to Blob. I have tri...
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Easier to search for tables in a TDV data catalog

    The available search function in the Files and data flyout always searches the whole library. This makes it hard to find tables in a TDV data catalog (in the Files and data flyout) since the search result also includes Information Links and other ...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement
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